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Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1923. first edition. hardcover. very good: age wear/soiling to boards and spine, spine sunned, toning and offset to endpapers, slight lean to text block, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 392pp. travel memoir by author and WWI correspondent. opening of first chapter: "When I told the British chief of staff in Constantinople that we purposed crossing western Asia, from the Mediterranean to the Caspian, through Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia, he was not encouraging. "Of course you may get across all right," he said pessimistically, "but we can't guarantee your safety. All we can promise is that, if the Bedouins do capture you, we'll send out some planes and jolly well bomb the beggars until they let you go." #01165.

The Century Co. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate inside.

D. Appleton-Century, January 1939. Hardcover. Good.

Garden City, NY1923: Garden City. vg. Hardcover. 392pp + glossy b/w photo plates; text clean, previous owner name in pencil on front ep, foxing to fore edge; 8.25" tall; tan cover with faded spine & edges; chips & tears to 2-color il'd dj in new protective mylar .

Garden City, 1923. Hardcover. Good. Photos. Some wear on corners and edges of orange cloth binding. Title on spine faded. Pages yellowing but very clean and very tight.

D. Appleton-Century, 1939. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In orange cloth with light rubbing. .

The Century Co., 1923. Hardcover. Good. . Dust wear/tanning to spine. Some shelf wear. Splitting at inner hinges but binding is sturdy. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1923. xi, 392pp, index, bw ills. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket heavily water stained, some water staining to top and bottom of numerous pages, prev owner bookplate at front. Travel by car from Constaninople to Baghdad including Lebanon, Judea, and Kurdistan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 8vo.

D. Appleton-Century, 1939. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xxii, 391 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, folded map ; 20 cm.

New York and London: The Century Co, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 392; folding map printed in color, numerous illustrations from photographs on plates; original pictorial orange cloth stamped in gilt and black; mild dampstaining throughout, front hinge starting at the half-title, some spotting, spine dusty; all else good and sound.

London, John Long Limited, 1923 1st. Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Spine darkened with small chips to ends. Corners slightly bumped. First front free endpaper removed. Small tear to edge of endpaper and top edge of title page. Else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. 392pp. Illustrated with a colour folding map and 82 B&W photo illustrations.

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - PERSIA) POWELL, E. Alexander. BY CAMEL AND CAR TO THE PEACOCK THRONE. London: John Long, Ltd., 1923. 8vo. Green cloth. xxii, 392 pages. 46 plates, including 1 folding map. First edition. A journal kept by E. Alexander Powell, American journalist during World War I and adventurer in the Middle East after the war. It chronicles his trip from Jerusalem in British Palestine up to Damascas, East to the Euphrates River an on to Teheran - the seat of the famous Peacock Throne of the Persian Shahs. journey returns to Palestine by Aleppo and Beirut back to Jerusalem. Illustrated with photographs of the trip of the exotic sites, events, peoples and monuments they saw. Chapter headings include: "In the chariot-ruts of history," "An Arabian anabasis," "Across the land of the lion and the sun," "The city of the Peacock Throne,", etc. Very good. (40128).

The Century Company. GIft inscription on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1923.