• Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick

Thesiger, Sir Wilfred Patrick

Title Crossing the Sands
Date Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London 1999
Publisher Emirates Printing Press for Motivate Publishing

Description

First Edition SIGNED by the author on the half-title 'Wilfred Thesiger'. Provenance: although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of Michael Shaw of Curtis Brown, who succeeded Graham Watson as Thesiger's agent in about 1980. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and board. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Quarto. pp. 176, monochrome photographic illustrations, one colour printed folding map after Thesiger tipped onto lower pastedown. This is the first edition of Thesiger's travel classic 'Arabian Sands' to be illustrated with his photographs and prefaced with a new introduction.

Condition

A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket.
Price: £450.00
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