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Meinertzhagen, Colonel R.. Middle East Diary 1917 to 1956. The Cresset Press, London, 1959.
Price: US$109.32 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Orig. blue cloth. xi, 376 pp. Minor bruising to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, lightly toned and rubbed to extremities.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Meinertzhagen, R. [Colonel]. MIDDLE EAST DIARY 1917-1956. The Cresset Press, London, 1959.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 376 pages. First edition. Blue cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on dark red paint label on spine. Binding slightly cocked. Off-white but bright interior. Blue paper jacket with menorah design on front, red and black titles. Sunned spine. Rubbed edges. Lightly soiled. PC. In a mylar jacket. VG/G
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Colonel R. Meinertzhagen. MIDDLE EAST DIARY 1917-1956. The Cresset Press, London, 1959.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 376p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket has speckly stains on the front, some mild edge wear, and a lightly tanned spine, but is essentially intact. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) was a British intelligence officer and ornithologist influential in the formation of the modern state of Israel. Though once regarded as a military hero, many of his claims of heroism, as well as his purported ornithological discoveries, have been called into doubt or refuted.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Meinertzhagen, Colonel R.. Middle East Diary, 1917-1956. Cresset Press London 1959, 1959.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition orig. cloth Near Fine octavo xi + 376pp., maps, index, Zionism, the Palestine Mandate & the Sovereign State of Israel. Some flecking to edge of text block o/w nice copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
MEINERTZHAGEN R.. MIDDLE EAST DIARY - 1917-1956. THE CRESSET PRESS LONDON, 1959.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Description: 1ST EDITION. SCARCE. VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH PROTECTIVE DUST WRAP. TEXT DESCRIBES THROUGH DIARIES AND LETTERS, HIS LONG ASSOCIATION WITH PALESTINE AND ISRAEL.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Meinertzhagen, Colonel R.. Middle East Diary, 1917-1956. Cresset Press London 1959, 1959.
Price: US$178.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy octavo xi + 376pp., maps, index, Zionism, the Palestine Mandate & the Sovereign State of Israel. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xi, 376 pp., 1 map, chronological table, contemporary blue cloth,lightly faded at spine, index, + an insert of a single folded sheet concerning the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial signed at the end (in print) by Allenby, Churchill, Augustus John, G.B. Shaw and others, light soiling to page 297, otherwise copy in good condition ". . . During the First World War, Colonel Meinertzhagen, an Englishman, was on Lord Allenby's staff in the Middle East; later he was successively a member of the Peace Delegation, Chief Political Officer in Palestine, and military adviser to the Middle East Department of the British Colonial Office. In these various roles he played an important part in the initiation and difficult early evolution of the Palestine Mandate and conceived a strong sympathy towards the Zionist movement. " (Publishers Note) nb. 9240
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom