The Arab of Mesopotamia, a compellingly clean copy with contemporary Mesopotamian provenance and a contemporary photograph, housed in a solander case

by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

$2,600 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

Basrah: Printed by E. G. Pearson at the Times Press, Bombay, and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition of The Arab of Mesopotamia is triply compelling – for condition, provenance, and curiosity. The work was published in Basrah in 1917 to inform British imperial considerations in the Middle East during and after the First World War. The

• Binding: Hardcover

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