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    By Alan Ostler
    London   John Murray
    9.5" by 6.5" vii [5], 1-314pp
    A publisher's presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of Alan Ostler's account of the Arab camps at the beginning of the Tripoli campaign.
    By Alan Ostler

    1912 The Arabs in Tripoli

    London   John Murray
    9.5" by 6.5" vii [5], 1-314pp
    A publisher's presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of Alan Ostler's account of the Arab camps at the beginning of the Tripoli campaign.
    £55.00
    : 1kgs / : 900F54
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

    The uncommon first edition of this work.

    With the blind stamp 'with Mr Murray's Compliments' to the title page head.

    Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates by H. Seppings Wright. Collated, complete. Two plates detached, and loosely inserted.

    In this work, Ostler provides an account of events in the Turkish and Arab camps during the first six months of the Tripoli campaign, in 'an attempt to give a picture of a strange people amongst whom I have lived for some time'.

    From the library of Joseph Herbert Thorniley, former editor of ‘The Pioneer’ Allahabad.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial onlay to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with significant handling marks to perimeters of front board. Front hinge lightly strained, but firmly held. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with two plates detached and loosely inserted. Blind stamp to title page. Pages bright and generally clean, with light handling marks, and instances of pencil notations to margins.

    Very Good

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