Arabia and the Isles
by Ingrams, Harold
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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IVER, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1943. xv, 367, frontis, 30 b/w plates, 2 folding maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine. Some minor browning to endpapers, folding maps lightly foxed. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg in worn and torn d/w (some loss to spine/corners; edges reinforced with tape to rear; in removable protective sleeve).. Second impression (first published 1942). With Foreword by Lt.-Col. Sir Bernard Reilly, Governor of Aden, 1937-1940. William Harold Ingrams (1897-1973), was a British colonial administrator best known for his time in the Aden Protectorate as administrator of the Hadhramaut region, where he oversaw a truce between feuding tribes known as 'Ingram's Peace'..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S57729
- Title
- Arabia and the Isles
- Author
- Ingrams, Harold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Arabian Peninsula; Indian Ocean; Travel Narrative
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- VG
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....