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Shepherd, Anthony.
Arabian Adventure.
Publisher: Collins, London;
Date of Publication: 1961
Stock Code: 12661
First edition. Octavo, pp. 256. 15 monochromatic photographs throughout, including a frontispiece photograph portrait of the author. Publisher’s sage green cloth with gilt title to spine in a price-clipped, pictorial dust-jacket. Slight rubbing to both spine tips, corners a touch bruised. Dust-jacket a touch soiled and toned, most visibly to the white panel. Small scratch to upper panel. Contents clean and bright with no annotations or inscriptions. An account of Captain Anthony Shepherd’s military service with the Trucial Oman Scouts in South-East Arabia, the hardships faced and the friends made. Foreword by Lieutenant General Sir John Bagot Glubb. £150.00