Reuben. A Baghdad Chronicle.

by LEVY

£250 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

LEVY, Reuben. A Baghdad Chronicle. Cambridge: University Press. 1929. 8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. xi, 279, four plates after photographs; wrapper with a little marginal fraying and darkening; text a little spotted; a good copy in the rarely preserved dust-wrappers. First edition of this "social history of Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphs. Interwoven with the politics of the period … [Levy] gives a picture of the daily life of the city, its customs and manners and its typical citizens" (inside front flap). SKU: 2121027

• Binding: Hardcover

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