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Travels in Arabia Deserta
by DOUGHTY, Charles Montagu (1843-1926), [LAWRENCE, T.E., introduction]
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Arabia Travel] NEW 'DEFINITIVE' EDITION, First Thus. Complete in two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.674; pp.696. Complete with a frontispiece and illustrated plates to volume I, and a large folding map to each volume. Publisher's brown buckram with gilt titles to spines. Top edges brown, others untrimmed. Typographic bookplate of Jessie Strachan to front fly-leaf, quoting Milton. Some spotting and toning to edges, otherwise a clean copy internally. Light wear only to cloth. Very good. Doughty's epic two-year journey through Europe to The Holy Land and Syria in the 1870s remained almost unknown to the public until, in 1908, an abridgement by Garnett under the title Wanderings in Arabia immediately gained for Doughty a host of admirers. In 1921 'Travels in Arabia Deserta', long since out of print, was reissued with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T.E. Lawrence, and this 'definitive' edition followed in 1936.
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- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64375
- Title
- Travels in Arabia Deserta
- Author
- DOUGHTY, Charles Montagu (1843-1926), [LAWRENCE, T.E., introduction]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Jonathan Cape, 1936
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fly-Leaf
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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