TALES FROM FIVE CHIMNEYS

by Marmaduke Pickthall, William

$125 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Mills & Boon, Limited, n.d. 1915 . Octavo, original black cloth. First edition. Eighteen short stories, most of them set in the Middle East, conveying a knowledgeable and vivid realism. Pickthall was another in the long line of Englishmen who became fascinated by the Arabs and their culture. One of these stories, Hashish, describes an Arab's introduction to and growing acquaintance with the drug first

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