The Arab of Mesopotamia, in the extravagantly rare original wraps binding

by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

$2,750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

Basrah: Printed and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition, wraps issue. Wraps. This item – the only we have offered or examined – is the wraps softcover issue of Gertrude Bell’s The Arab of Mesopotamia, which differs in multiple particulars from its hardcover counterpart. The work was published in Basrah in 1917 to inform British imperial considerations in the

• Binding: Softcover

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