Wilfred Thesiger

Arabian Sands

Longmans, Green and Co Ltd

1959

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Description

Signed first edition, first printing of Thesiger's Arabian Sands.

  • Wilfred Thesiger (English).
  • London: Longmans, Green and Co Ltd, 1959. 
  • xvi, 326 pages.
  • Octavo.
  • Black and white photographs tipped in throughout textblock.
  • Signed and dated by Thesiger on half-title page.
  • Includes a map of Thesiger's traverses in the Empty Quarter compiled by the Royal Geographical Society (1945–50) inside pocket attached to back pastedown.
  • Bound with graphic spine with yellow and black lettering and in original dust jacket.

Condition Report

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Minor chipping along length and sides of spine.

Moderate creasing and shelfwear with slight tearing to top, bottom and side edges of dust jacket.

Moderate foxing to dust jacket and top and side edges of textblock.

Bumping to front and back fore-edges and bottom back board.

Slight fraying to top and bottom edges of boards.

Mild soiling to bottom right edge of back board.

Moderate age-toning to textblock.

Soiling and foxing to front and back endpapers and first several pages.

Slight marginalia on copyright page and back first free edge.

Dust jacket wrapped in mylar, price is clipped.

 

Product is used.

Feature(s)

Dust Jacket, Signed, First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Modern first editions, Travel, topography and voyages

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