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Doughty, Charles, M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta Volume Two. Philip Lee Warner, London, 1921.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Hardcover, covers poor with damage/loss at head of spine, edges uncut, rep creased at top corner, otherwise Fair without dustjacket. Some pages are marked.

Seller: John Stoodley, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

DOUGHTY, Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta.. Philip Lee Warner, London, 1921.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: With a New Preface by the Author. 2 vols. Illustrated with maps, plans and cuts. 8vo, publisher's gilt cloth, t.e.g. Later (Third) edition; first published in 1888. Clean, tight and sound, with a little chipping to the tops and bottoms of the spines.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Charles M Doughty, T E Lawrence (introduction). Travels in Arabia Deserta, with a New Preface by The Author, and All Original Maps, Plans and Cuts | Introduction by T E Lawrence. Philip Lee Warner, Medici Society & Jonathan Cape, 1921.

Price: US$649.77 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: *** this edition (first with Lawrence introduction) published January 1921; this set is a reprint dated September 1921, described on dust jacket as 'second edition of the re-issue; 2 vols, hardbacks in green cloth board covers with gilt lettering and motifs and with gilding to upper text blocks , 623 + 690 pages | portrait frontis. in vol 1; maps, plans, collotype plates etc, all as per original 1888 edition; large cloth-backed folding map in pocket at rear of vol 1 | both volumes are sound and square; covers are clean, showing normal shelf wear; faintly visible marks indicate possible long ago wiping with damp cloth; also some fading to front cover vol 2; spines frayed at head and tail, but not such as to affect spine function | vol 1 front endpaper split at hinges, others are intact; both volumes free of names, inscriptions etc, | dust jacket fragment survives | along with a reproduction of the author's portrait, 15 x 20 cms approx, with inscription on back, dated 1922 *** in stock and ready to be dispatched

Seller: *bibliosophy*, Exeter, United Kingdom

DOUGHTY, Charles M.. Travels in Arabia Deserta. With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, Ltd., and Jonathan Cape, 1921.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: With a new preface by the author. Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. In two volumes. Pp. xxxvi+624+ xiv+690, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 8 plates (5 folding), title page decoration both volumes, text illustrations and figures, large colored folding map in pocket at end of Volume I, appendices, index and glossary of Arabic words; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle scuffed, spines and part of the boards of Volume I lightly faded, edges a trifle worn; t.e.g., others uncut; corners of a few leaves slightly creased, pp. 444/5 faintly browned in Volume I, a little light foxing; an excellent copy. First published in 1888, this is the second edition, the first with Doughty's new preface, and Lawrence's introduction, one of 500 copies only. "Travels in Arabia Deserta, on which Doughty labored from 1879 to 1884 and which he continued correcting until its publication in 1888, is an unrivalled encyclopedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia. In a notable contemporary review in Academy, Sir Richard Francis Burton praised the book's scientific knowledge and its style. So reliable was the book's anthropology of the Bedouin peoples and its topography, that British intelligence mined it for information during the First and Second World wars. Doughty's contributions to all areas of Arabian knowledge continue to be praised by scholars" (Stephen Tabachnik in ODNB). Lawrence had long admired Doughty's work and was instrumental in getting it republished by Jonathan Cape, it was to be the publisher's first book, "Lawrence's notoriety was desired for the expensive two volume set [it was published at 9 guineas, somewhere over £1, 000 today] and he was persuaded to write his first introduction" (O'Brien). O'Brien A013.

Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.

DOUGHTY Charles Montagu. Travels in Arabia Deserta. With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T.E. Lawrence, and all original Maps, Plans and Cuts. [Second English Edition.] 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED; SECOND ENGLISH EDITION; CAPE'S FIRST BOOK; NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS. Philip Lee Warner [for Medici Society] and Jonathan Cape,, 1921.

Price: US$5458.09 + shipping

Description: 2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition thus, with fine portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates (a number in collotype and a number folding), illustrations, maps and plans in the text and large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at end of first volume, neat contemporary signature on half-title of first volume, small sticker on front paste-downs; original dark green cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and framed in blind, gilt backs, gilt tops, black endpapers, uncut, a sharp, bright, crisp, near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers moderately sunned at backstrips. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. With the trade ticket of WH Smith of Bournemouth on front paste-down. 'Lawrence had long admired Doughty's classic and was instrumental in getting the second English edition published by the fledgling firm of Jonathan Cape in conjunction with the Medici Society' (paraphrased from O'Brien). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPERS. O'Brien A013.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom