TENTS AND TOWERS OF ARABIA
by Shaffer, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good +
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., (c. 1951). first edition. hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo, black cloth covers, xi [1] 276 pages. Illustrated with black and white photo reproductions. Map on endpapers. One cover corner lightly bumped, else very good. Dust jacket has some light chipping and creases at edges. The author was "assigned to Jidda by the State Department during the last years of the recent war...the author's eyewitness account of the great awakening resulting from the impact of American oil royalties upon the Saudi economy." 081006A
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- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020590
- Title
- TENTS AND TOWERS OF ARABIA
- Author
- Shaffer, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c. 1951)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- First Edition
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