Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$8.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1955. 335 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: New york : Victor Gollancz, London, 1955, Used-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 362 pp. .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket is very shelf worn with the top half of the front torn off, and a chip on the bottom of the spine. Boards are neat with very little edge wear. Binding is secure. No inscriptions or annotations. Presents well in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Phillips, Wendell. Qataban And Sheba. Victor Gollancz, 1955.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket is very shelf worn with multiple tears, chips and creases. Boards are edge rubbed. Binding is sound. Ink signature from a previous owner on the half title page. No other inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. r*08/08/2023. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy with just lightly foxed edges. Only the flaps of the dust jacket are included.
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Description: Hb. illustrated. Good
Seller: John Trotter Books, london, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with nicks and tears, yellowing of pages, otherwise a good copy. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$21.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1955. Second Impression. 335 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.47 + shipping
Description: Or.cl. Dustjacket. 335pp. b/w plates. End-paper maps. Some foxing on edges, else a very Good copy in a price-clipped else Fine dj. 1st ed.
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Price: US$29.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: dustjacket chipped at top of the front panel and the bottom of the spine. A darkening of the edges of the pages. Non-authorial gift annotation on the title page, Otherwise nice clean copy . this story of archaeology in the Arabian Peninsula and the politics Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 735 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs & maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Arabia; history. Inventory No: 0265316.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Page edges slightly toned, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dustjacket with a few tiny professionally closed tears. Illustrated with 82 (b/w) photographs, 5 diagrams and 3 maps. Scan available on request.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Believed to be a first English edition. No other printings.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, MAP DECORATED ENDPAPERS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 335 PAGES. SOME MINOR EDGE WEAR WITH A COUPLE OF CHIPS, SMALL CLOSED TEARS & CREASES, FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH BOARDS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVER THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK edition of this exploration book detailing a visit to the Middle East with many illustrations. First UK edition of Qataban and Sheba, Exploring Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia by Wendell Phillips in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper.Wendell Phillips was an American archaeologist who led some of the first archaeological expeditions in modern day Yemen and Oman.Densely illustrated with seventy eight monochrome plates, various diagrams throughout the text and three maps. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart. There is some wear to the dust wrapper, including some significant loss to the rear panel. To the binding, there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burgundy cloth titled in gilt, map endpages. Stated second printing. Inscribed to half title page by Phillips. Bottom board corners bumped, PO stamp to half title, faint staining to textblock edge. Sound binding. The DJ in mylar is nicked/slightly torn at spine ends/points, toned at spine, a few small dampstains to spine, tiny closed tear to front panel edge, interior tape at crown. Many photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Qataban & Sheba: Exploring Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia by Wendell Phillips. Inscribed by author on half title page. Hardcover second impression published in 1955 by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London. Corners of jacket chipped with 3 1/4 to 1/2 inch missing chips on upper edge of spine. Light soiling on front panel of jacket near fold. Pages yellowed otherwise book is in near fine condition. Not clipped.
Seller: Nash Books, Huntsville, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First British edition, 8vo, pp. 335, [1]; color map endpapers, double-page map, 78 illustrations on rectos an versos of 32 plates; 5 diagrams in the text; fine copy in original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine, dust jacket with a handful of shallow chips.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.