minimal chipping and creasing to head and base
Black slip case blocked in red and cream with tobacco pipe design on one side
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Lang expressed the view that it would be “probably the last” of the collection
In a very good slipcase with some shelf-wear
Arabian Sands Agatha Christie minimal chipping and creasing toArabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1959. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in black and gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 46 plates, 8 maps to the text, some full page, with folding map intact in a pocket at the back. This was Thesiger's first book and "in his opinion, his finest" (ODNB). In the introduction, he writes: "During the years that I was in