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Price: US$25.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New and definitive edition in two volumes published 1936, reprinted December 1943 - VOLUME TWO ONLY, xxvii, 696pp, folding map at rear, black & white illustrations, introduction by T E Lawrence, fore edge of pages uncut but internally appears to be free from foxing, maroon top stain, maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, dust jacket has seen better days - spine tanned, front joint splitting, some chips to edges - but will be given a protective plastic wrapper. Size: 10.25 x 7.75 Inches
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Doughty, Charles M. The Dawn of Britain. Jonathan Cape, London (30, Bedford Square), 1943.
Price: US$61.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of a numbered edition limited to 535 copies, of which 500 offered for sale, this being No. 115. 692pp. In green cloth boards with gilt lettering front and spine, top edge sprayed, lower edge untrimmed (boards very slightly rubbed and rounded on corners). Lengthy but neat gift inscription on front free endpaper, giving details of Doughty's method, a few small pencil annotations in margins of introduction only, else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket (rubbed and lightly chipped at edges, discoloured and mildly marked, minor loss at head of spine). Dust jacket now protected in a Bordart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. 8vo. This volume was issued to mark the centenary of the birth of Doughty; although Doughty is most widely known for this Travels in Arabia Deserta, his own main interest was in epic poetry. His poems are no less remarkable and important in their own sphere than his prose masterpiece, yet at the time they were largely known only to a small circle of scholars and students. The most important of his poems, The Dawn of Britain was originally published in six volumes; this was the first single volume edition. It is otherwise an exact reprint of the original multi-volume publication.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
DOUGHTY,CHARLES M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta (2 volume set). jonathan cape london 1943, 1943.
Price: US$73.18 + shipping
Description: reprint 2 vols.674/696pp ills.[b/w w.fold-out maps] VG (brown cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,corners bumped,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,some minor foxing to contents and to verso of maps,spines cracked but tight) in G d/ws (vol.1 only consists of front cover/flap/spine,missing rear cover,vol.2 wrapper complete,rubbed and stained,chipping and wear to extrems.w.several losses and closed tears,price-clipped both vols.) tidy 2 vol.set but in tatty dustwrappers
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M.Doughty,with an Introduction by T.E.Lawrence in Two Volumes, Reprint,1943, Published by Jonathan Cape, Printed in Great Britain by the Alden Press, Volume 1: Hardback,has fading to covers and spine,with water mark to front and back cover,back cover has red marking, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, Pages are hand-cut, All plates appear present as listed,with yellowing to plates, Map has large tear to edge of map,with yellowing to map, Volume 2: Hardback,has fading to covers and spine, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, Pages are hand-cut, Map appears present, with yellowing to map,
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
Price: US$114.48 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, large 8vo, 674; 696 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 8 plates and 2 folding maps. Gilt titled buckram of slightly different hues, fading to the lower cover of volume I, otherwise very good. "[I] have grown to consider it. a bible of its kind. The book has no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert." (from Lawrence's Introduction). New and Definitive edition, first published in this format to match Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1936. First published 1888, and with Lawrence's introduction 1921.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.27 + shipping
Description: 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). 674pp; 696pp. Plates & maps. New and definitive edition. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G+ : in good condition plus without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed. Lower spines rubbed and faded. Minor tear at fold out map of volume one with limited impact on content. Ownership stamps on prelims and title page
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.11 + shipping
Description: F-/VG. 2 vols. 4to. original brown buckram gilt, uncut (boards lightly flecked, very clean internally with many leaves unopened) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, two lengthy, but discreet closed tears to rear panel of Vol. 1, occ. small hole due to silverfish, but otherwise complete, clean & unworn); pp. 674, with a frontispiece portrait, a folding colour plate, 7 b/w plates, colour folding map & numerous text figures; 696, with text figures & a colour geological map. Heavy (3.5 kgs), additional postage may be required for domestic and international delivery. A near fine set in the original dustwrappers.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Doughty, Charles. Travels In Arabia Deserta. Two ( 2 ) Volumes. Jonathan Cape, London, 1943.
Price: US$171.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes, original brown cloth in clean, tidy condition with similar, slightly rubbed dust jackets, volume one with a small closed teat to the top of the spine, contents bright and unmarked with some pages still uncut, 2 folding maps in very good order Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$349.81 + shipping
Description: Second impression thus. Two volumes. Large 8vo. 674; 696 pp. 20th century brown full morocco, gilt lettered to the spines, marbled endpapers, prior owner's discreet booklabel to the front pastedowns. Portrait frontispiece, 8 plates and 2 folding maps. An attractive set. "[I] have grown to consider it. a bible of its kind. The book has no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert." (from Lawrence's Introduction). "New and definitive edition", first published in this format in 1936 to match Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. First published 1888, and with Lawrence's introduction 1921.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$365.44 + shipping
Description: London: Jonathan Cape 1936 but 1943. Small 4to. Orig. full buckram with gilt titling on spines. In rubbed and chipped dustjackets. Uncut. With portrait maps plans and illustrations some of which are fold. and col. Title-pages printed in red/black. Soft browning on endpapers otherwise a fine crisp set.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Doughty,Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta.2 Volumes. Jonathan Cape, London, 1943.
Price: US$431.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated:plates & map.Previous Owners Name ffep [Vol 1&2].Small Booksellers Label bottom inside cover [Vol 1&2].
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
Charles Montagu Doughty; T. E. Lawrence. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Jonathan Cape, London, 1943.
Price: US$483.37 + shipping
Description: A wonderful example of the 'Definitive Edition' of Charles Montagu Doughty's work about his time living in the Middle East in the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated throughout, and with a preface by T. E. Lawrence. The second impression of the 'New and Definitive Edition' of this work, with an introduction by T.E. Lawrence.In the scarce publisher's original dust wrappers, price clipped.Illustrated with ten plates to volume I, including a frontispiece and folding plate to the rear, and with a folding map to the rear of volume II. Collated, complete.'Travels in Arabia Deserta' is a detailed and exciting travel work, documenting the author's travels in the Middle East, where he spent some time in the 1870s living with the Bedouins. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with price clipped dust wrappers. Bumping to spine heads and tails, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper back strips age toned. Mark to front wrap of volume I, with losses to volume I back strip head and tail. Front wrap of volume II detached front rear wrap and back strip. Large closed tear to volume II back strip, with chipping to back strip head and loss to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$498.33 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. In two volumes. Pp. 674+696, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates (2 folding), numerous text figures (some full page), 2 folding coloured maps, the title pages printed in red & black, appendices, index and glossary of Arabic words; cr. 4to; brown buckram, spines lettered in gilt, boards slightly flecked, fore-corners bruised; top edges brown, others uncut; dust wrappers, slightly soiled, with a couple of spots of foxing, edges and backstrips lightly rubbed (heavier Volume I), with splits and small tears (some tape repaired) to edges and backstrip extremities of Volume I; a couple of short closed tears to inner edge of folding map at end of Volume I neatly repaired on reverse with cloth and tape, pp. 567/8 in Volume II slightly creased, a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1943. New and definitive edition, second printing [sixth UK edition, reprinted]. O'Brien A017, notes. *Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1888.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$544.50 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First edition, second issue of the 1936 "New and Definitive Edition" with the introduction by T. E. Lawrence and the prefaces to the first through third editions. Portrait frontispiece in first volume, maps, plans, and collotype plates including large fold-out maps at the inside of the rear covers of both volumes. Royal 8vo, original brown cloth with gilt lettered spines. 674; 696. A very handsome set, clean and fresh, just a little minor rubbing to the bottom board edges. ARABIA DESERTA is perhaps one of the best-known classics of exploration and travel. Few writers of any genre have worked such magic or mischief on the English language as Doughty. He disapproved of Victorian style, and mingled his own with Chaucerian and Elizabethan English and Arabic. But whatever the style, the result is perhaps the finest book on Arabia ever written. We will let another Arabist, Lawrence, speak on Doughty's behalf: "I have talked the book over with many travellers, and we are agreed that here you have all the desert, its hills and plains, the lava fields, the villages, the tents, the men and animals. They are told of to the life, with words and phrases fitted to them so perfectly that one cannot dissociate them in memory. It is the true Arabia, the land with its smells and dirt, as well as its nobility and freedom. There is no sentiment, nothing merely picturesque, that most common failing of oriental travel-books. Doughty's completeness is devastating. There is nothing we would take away, little we could add. He took all Arabia for his province, and has left to his successors only the poor part of specialists. We may write books on parts of the desert or some of the history of it; but there can never be another picture of the whole, in our time, because here it is all said." (- from the Introduction).
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$563.83 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. Reprint of the New and definitive edition (first published in 1936). Sm.4to., orig. brown buckram, 674, 696pp. With illustrations and with a large folding map in the rear of each volume. Scuff mark on the spine of volume one which also has a stain on the lower portion of the upper board but o/w a very nice copy without rubbing or fading. Charles M. Doughty (1843-1926) English poet and traveller. On his return to England, Doughty set to work on the above title, "a full narrative designed to be a faithful record of all his experiences in Arabia." First published in 1888, it was praised by scholars but gained no popular following until the abridgement by Garnett in 1908. In 1921 the entire work was reprinted with an introduction by T.E. Lawrence. "Lawrence held the original version in high esteem, carrying a copy with him at all times. The new edition was accepted by a new generation of readers as a classic of travel." "In these respects his contributions and the acuteness and the wisdom of his observations made him the acknowledge master of later travellers." (DNB).
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2633.63 + shipping
Description: Second Impression of the 'New and definitive Edition'. Two Volumes (complete set). 20 cm x 26 cm. Volume I: Frontispice- Portrait of Doughty, 674 pages. Volume II: 696 pages. With both Volumes including each the beautiful large colour-fold-out-map in the rear showing "North Western Arabia and Negd". Hardcover / Publisher's original buckram with gilt lettering on spine and original dustjackets in protective collector's Mylar. Deckled fore- and tail-edges. Coloured top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjackets slightly stained and price-clipped. Interior is bright and clean. Patrick Leigh Fermor's personal copy with his name in ink on the endpaper of Volume II: "Patrick Leigh Fermor. London, July 1945.". Leigh Fermor obviously rewarded himself with the purchase of Doughty's masterpiece directly after World War Two. Stunning item, manifesting Doughty's heavy influence on Patrick Leigh Fermor's Travel writing. The set includes also three first editions in original dustjackets, of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous Travel writings: A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water [SIGNED], The Broken Road (with the second book, "Between the Woods and the Water" signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Includes, for example, the following: Ibn Rashid's Town - Superstitious fears of the Arabs. Exorcists / Life in Hayil - Their nomad-like ignorance of the civil world / Depart from Hayil: Journey to Kheybar - Adventure in the Desert / The Medina Life at Kheybar - Amm Mohammed's Kurdish family - A Beduin marksmean slain - Spitting of some account in their medicine / The Shammar and Harb Deserts in Nejd / Aneyza - Ancient man in Arabia / The Christian Stranger Driven from Aneyza; and Recalled / Wars of Aneyza. Kahtan Expelled from El-Kasim / Tayif. The Sherif, Emir of Mecca / Wady Fatima / Geology of the Peninsular of the Arabs / Index and Glossary of Arabic Words etc. Charles Montagu Doughty, (1843 - 1926), British traveller and writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all Western travellers in Arabia. Doughty attended the Universities of London and Cambridge, after which he travelled widely in Europe, Egypt, the Holy Land (Palestine), and Syria. He began his journey to northwestern Arabia at Damascus in 1876 and proceeded southward with pilgrims headed for the hajj at Mecca. Along the way he studied monuments and inscriptions left by the ancient Nabataean civilization. His observations were published by Ernest Renan. On the latter part of his journey, he made his most important geographical, geological, and anthropological observations. (Encylopedia Briannica) Doughty is best known for his 1888 travel book Travels in Arabia Deserta, a work in two volumes that, although it had little immediate influence upon its publication, slowly became a kind of touchstone of ambitious travel writing, one valued as much for its language as for its content. T. E. Lawrence rediscovered the book and caused it to be republished in the 1920s, contributing a laudatory introduction of his own. Since then, the book has gone in and out of print. The book is a vast recounting of Doughty's treks through the Arabian deserts, and his discoveries there. It is written in an extravagant and mannered style, largely based on the King James Bible but constantly surprising with verbal turns and odd inventiveness. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland