The Desert King; the Life of Ibn Saud by David Howarth - 1964

Interlink Publishing+group Inc, 1980. Paperback. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Collins, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition/printing. Book in Very Good Plus condition and the dust jacket is nicely intact and presentable but Good only because of tape on verso. Arabian history. The resurrection and road to wealth of the house of Saud. B&W plates.

UK: Mayflower Books Ltd, 1967. Creasing to corners and some rubbing to covers. Area of peeling to back cover. Sunning to spine and top cover edge. Diminishing watermark to area of top edge of first 60 pages, otherwise interior clean. Bindings tight. . Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall.

Collins, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. In brown cloth. No jacket. .

Beirut, Lebanon : Librarie du Liban , 1974 Librarie du Liban, Beirut, Lebanon. 1974. Hardcover. Reprint Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light foxing to textblock top; light shelfwear to tips; light bump to front board edge. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 251 pp 8vo. This book, being written in 1974, tells the story of Saudi Arabia and of its founder Ibn Saud just as the country was beginning to change from Bedouin to Urban as the oil income flowed into the Kingdom. An accurate and very interesting account into the history and culture of Arabia and its Bedouin warrior King pre and post oil discovery. The book profiles the personality, the mind, the strength and the vision of the founder and monarch of Saudi Arabia, as well as his sons and heirs, one of which brought the country into the 20th Century. Interested readers are given an insight into the rapid evolution of the country from ancient and historical… Read More

Collins' Clear Type Press, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. No edition remarks. 252 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Library copy, with removed inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with light tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription mild scuffing and heavy pen scribbles to half title page. Boards are assumed in good condition as are covered with taped on jacket. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over. Library number to spine.

Collins, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. 251 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

UK: Mayflower. Good. Paperback. 1967. 219 pages. booksellers stamp front fly .

London, Collins, 1964.. First English Edition; 8vo; pp. 252; map endpapers, b/w illustrations, sources and acknowledgements, index; original red cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine and corners bumped, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, a good copy. O'Brien F0535.

Quartet Books, London 1980. Pb. Sl. Scuffed. Good