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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xxix (iv),396 (4) pp + fold-out maps, First Published @1932, llus. With a Foreword by T. E. Lawrence and an Appendix by Arthur Keith; also containing maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations complementary to the text: Re-issued in a New First Edition, 1936. Light external wear with lightly age-toned text block, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.25". Orangish-brown cloth gilt lettering to spine, and brownish top text block. Size: Large Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Charles M. Doughty. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Price: US$72.48 + shipping
Description: ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.8kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 10¼" x 7¾" (3.8 kg); 674/696pp; Index; Preface by T. E. Lawrence; Includes: Panoramas; Line drawings; Black & white plates; Maps; Fold-out maps (2); Frontispiece portrait; Glossary; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188419|| Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with mottling to the boards of both volumes. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Hinges weak in both volumes. Text complete, clean and tight overall but a little spotting to the lining pages of volume I.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Description: pp. 674. Frontispiece, 8 plates [1 folding], large folding, coloured map; 696. Large folding, coloured map. Text illustrations in each volume. Publisher's brown buckram, a little faded and rubbed, scattered foxing, the maps a bit creased at the fore-edges, partly unopened, good copies. *INTRODUCTION - ' It is not comfortable to have to write about Arabia Deserta. I have studied it for ten years, and have grown to consider it a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind.' T. E. LAWRENCE.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$197.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Two volumes. Nice older books in good condition. Deccal paged editions. 1949 copies. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking and wear due to age. Page faces are excellent and bright. Pull out maps present in back. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> However, there is no need at this time of day to commend Doughty to students. They all know of him. It is to the outside public, willing to read a great prose work, the record of the wanderings of an English poet for two years among the Beduins, that this edition must make its appeal, - and perhaps with them that the verdict of present-day travellers in Arabia will have weight. 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 fai
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United Kingdom
Price: US$205.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of the revised edition in original cloth with a bright clean near fine D/W. Forward by T.E. Lawrence. A great travel classic with map to rear. 397pp. Name of previous owner to neatly to fep.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Lawrence, T. E.. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. Jonathan Cape, London and at Toronto, 1936.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, seventh printing. Frontispiece bust of the author, 4 folded maps and 47 plates. 672 pp. 1 vols. 4to. O'Brien A042 (note) Brown buckram, spine titled in gilt, upper board without ornament. Fine copy in very good plus dust jacket (some soiling, short tears to top of back panel without loss) Frontispiece bust of the author, 4 folded maps and 47 plates. 672 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first impression, originally published in 1914 by the Palestine Exploration Fund. "During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archaeological survey, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of the archaeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin, the first of Lawrence's works to appear in book form [when it came out originally in 1914]" (O'Brien). O'Brien A006. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. With 40 plates, 2 maps, line drawings in the text. Foxing and toning to endpapers; jacket lightly soiled, spine toned with minor damp staining to foot, nicks and short tears to extremities, not price clipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: [Arabia Travel] NEW 'DEFINITIVE' EDITION, First Thus. Complete in two volumes. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.674; pp.696. Complete with a frontispiece and illustrated plates to volume I, and a large folding map to each volume. Publisher's brown buckram with gilt titles to spines. Top edges brown, others untrimmed. Typographic bookplate of Jessie Strachan to front fly-leaf, quoting Milton. Some spotting and toning to edges, otherwise a clean copy internally. Light wear only to cloth. Very good. Doughty's epic two-year journey through Europe to The Holy Land and Syria in the 1870s remained almost unknown to the public until, in 1908, an abridgement by Garnett under the title Wanderings in Arabia immediately gained for Doughty a host of admirers. In 1921 'Travels in Arabia Deserta', long since out of print, was reissued with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T.E. Lawrence, and this 'definitive' edition followed in 1936.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Woolley, C. Leonard; Lawrence, T. E.. THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN. Jonathan Cape, London, 1936.
Price: US$334.15 + shipping
Description: With a chapter on the Greek inscriptions by M. N. Tod. Introduction by Sir Frederic Kenyon. Pp. [ii]+166, 40 plates, 2 full page maps, folding plan, numerous text figures (a couple full page), index; cr. 4to; brick red buckram, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, a trifle soiled, head of spine lightly bruised; top edges red; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Jonathan Cape, London, 1936. Second U.K. edition. O'Brien A006. *Originally published in 1915, The Wilderness of Zin was the first of Lawrence's work to be published in book form. Sir Frederic Kenyon's preface (not included in the first edition or in the 1935 second issue of the work, which was bound from the original sheets), describes the further archaeological work done in the area since the original publication. This edition also includes 3 more plates than the original.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
DOUGHTY, Charles M. LAWRENCE, T. E.. Travels in Arabia Deserta.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1936.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. 2 vols. Illustrated with maps, plans and cuts. Large 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth. Later edition; first published in 1888. Clean, tight and sound, some light use to the cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Doughty, Charles M(ontagu). Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936.
Price: US$370.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, a new and definitive printing, 1936. Two volumes in brown buckram cloth. Spine lettering in gilt, top edges brown, front and bottom edges rough cut. Slight discolouration at the base of the spine of Volume 1., corners of both volumes lightly bumped. The inner front hinge of Volume 1 has split, webbing intact, otherwise tight and secure. Boards lightly scuffed. Foreword by T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia). First printed in 1888. A pleasing set. Two heavy items that will require extra postage.
Seller: Robert Rankin Books, Caledonia, ON, Canada
Price: US$376.96 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. New and definitive edition. Sm.4to., orig. brown buckram, 674, 696pp. With illustrations and with a large folding map in the rear of each volume. Four inch closed tear in the folding map, spines very slightly faded o/w a near fine set. 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
Charles M. Doughty. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Complete in two volumes. Jonathan Cape, London, 1936.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 'New and definitive edition'. 2 vols. Illustrated throughout, folding maps to rear, introduction by T. E. Lawrence. 4to. Near fine, rebound in modern 20th century full leather, gilt lettered to spines, mild discolouration to spines, else very nice clean examples, binding by Norman Thompson, late bookbinding instructor at the Chelsea College of Art. Very heavy, will require extra postage. 674; 696pp.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$396.87 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London: Jonathan Cape ,1936. 2 volumes ,4to.(260x200) , percale éditeur ,dos lisse avec auteur , titre et tomaisons , titre en noir et rouge , illustré de nombreuses gravures et de 2 cartes couleurs dépliantes in-fine , non rogné , manque sur le plat , coins usés , petit travail de vers sans atteinte , rousseurs. Charles Montagu Doughty (1843-1926), poète, écrivain et voyageur anglais. Doughty avait voyagé au Moyen-Orient et avait vécu quelque temps avec les Bédouins dans les années 1870. P2-6E
Seller: Librairie Voyage et Exploration, Cerny, France
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher’s brown cloth. Titles to spines in gilt. Dust wrappers. 4to. (26 x 20 cm). 2 volumes set: (674 p., 696 p., Doughty’s portrait on the frontispiece, 2 large folding maps (colour map on a folded plate at end of each volume: "A sketch map itinerarium of part of northwestern Arabia and Negd [Najd]"), folding topographic panoramas, many illustrations in text, numbered plates in colour and b/w. Slight browning and light chippings on top and lower of dust jackets. Overall, a very good set. Scarce set in this condition, of this “new and definitive edition”, with an introduction by Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935). This “first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert -and if it has not always been referred to, or enough read, that has been because it was excessively rare-” (Lawrence), including a detailed travel account of the Middle East and perilous exploration by English poet and writer Doughty and spent some time living with the Bedouins during the 1870s. The book was published first in 1888, then an abridged version was arranged and introduced in 1908 by editor Edward William Garnett (1868-1937). According to Richard Burton, Doughty spent ten long years -a decade in these days being equivalent to a generation- in systematically frittering away the interest of his subject; and at last, after printing delays innumerable, he comes before the world with these two large volumes [.] In July 1884, the R. G. S. of London printed (Proceedings, pp. 382-399) Doughty’s “Travels in North-Western Arabia ”, a mere abstract instead of detailed geographical and topographical descriptions as it should have been; full of misprints and mistakes, with a perverted sketch map of which the traveler complained loudly and publicly. Doughty began his adventurous and perilous exploration on November 13, 1876, and left Arabia in the autumn of 1878. His account has brilliant descriptions of Islamic and pre-Islamic Arab culture and geography such as inscriptions, epitaphs, coins, customs, trade in the peninsula, tribes, daily life, six thousand Muslim pilgrims traveling across "wild waste earth" by camel caravan to Mecca in the autumn of 1876 and return of the Haj, nomad life in the desert, Bedouins, etc. in these voluminous books. This book was “a bible of its kind” for Thomas Edward Lawrence. He was an avid admirer of Doughty and his writing, as shown in his introduction. Lawrence had been instrumental in having the work reprinted, with his name ensuring that Arabia Deserta reached a wider audience. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard (1893–1968) set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation for high-quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and reader Edward Garnett. Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. Day Lewis to children's authors such as Roald Dahl, Hugh Lofting, and Arthur Ransome, to James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, to heavyweight fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence. The firm's first publication was widely regarded as a gamble: Cape published a new two-volume edition, at the high price of nine guineas, of C. M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta. The book, first published in 1888 with no success, had been out of print for 30 years. The Cape edition sold out and had to be reprinted several times. Among those who admired it was T. E. Lawrence, who became friendly with Cape, and wrote an introduction to the firm's 1926 single-volume edition of the book. Jonathan Cape Ltd became Lawrence's publisher, issuing Revolt in the Desert (1927), Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935), and The Mint (1955). Sources: Burton, Richard F., "Review of Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta" (1888), Academy, Vol. XXXIV (28 July), pp. 47-8., Wikipedia., "Charles Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta republished", The National, 26 August 2013.
Seller: Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, Istanbul, Turkey
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: The handsomely produced new and definitive edition, first impression. Doughty's masterpiece was first published in 1888, "an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia" (ODNB). Lawrence was instrumental in getting the second English edition published and his introduction first appeared in that edition of 1921. O'Brien A017. 2 volumes, large octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges brown, others untrimmed. With dust jackets. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates and illustrations throughout, 2 folding coloured maps showing Doughty's routes; title pages printed in red and black. Touch of sunning to head of spines, slight creasing to fore corners of vol. II title page due to a production fault; jackets lightly soiled, some nicks, chips and closed tears with some loss, old stain to front panel of vol. II; very good copies in used but presentable jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: New and definitive edition. Illustrated, 2 folding maps. 674; 696pp. 2 vols. 4to. O'Brien A019 Modern three quarter polished mottled calf and marbled boards, green and brown title labels. Fine Illustrated, 2 folding maps. 674; 696pp. 2 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: New and definitive edition, first impression, in a handsome binding. Travels in Arabia Deserta, "an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia" (ODNB), was first published in 1886. T. E. Lawrence was instrumental in having the book republished in 1921, with a new introduction and preface by himself and Doughty, both included here. This edition was published in a format matching that of the 1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom. O'Brien A017. 2 volumes, large octavo. Attractively bound in recent reddish-brown morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, roll to boards gilt, marbled endpaers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates (2 folding), 2 large folding coloured maps showing Doughty's routes, illustrations to text; title pages printed in red and black. An excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Doughty, Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta.. Jonathan Cape,, London:, 1936.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is the December 1943 reprint of the definitive printing with the introduction by T.E. Lawrence. An excellent copy in the original dark brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine and brown top edges. In the original tan dust wrappers with black lettering in excellent condition showing some very moderate wear and soiling. A lovely set in the rare wrappers.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.