By Owen Tweedy
London   Jarrolds
9" by 6" [6], vii-x, 288pp
A scarce first edition of this exciting travel work, documenting the author's travels through Cairo to Persia, illustrated throughout.
By Owen Tweedy

1933 Cairo to Persia and Back

London   Jarrolds
9" by 6" [6], vii-x, 288pp
A scarce first edition of this exciting travel work, documenting the author's travels through Cairo to Persia, illustrated throughout.
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Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this work.

A scarce work.

An exciting travel work looking into the author's journey from Cairo to Persia in the mid twentieth century

Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-one plates, and two maps.

Collated, complete.

Written by the journalist and author Owen Tweedy.

Prior owner's ink inscriptions to the front pastedown and to the recto to the front endpaper.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A touch of fading to the spine. Small crack to the head of the spine, and to the tail of the rear joint. Hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscriptions to the front pastedown and to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots.

Good

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