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Bell, Gertrude.
Amurath to Amurath.
Publisher: MacMillan & Co, London;
Date of Publication: 1924
Stock Code: 13025
Second Editon. Octavo, pp., 370. With 234 figures on photographic plates and within text, as called for. With large colour-printed fold-out map to end. Publisher’s blue cloth, vignette gilt to upper board, titles gilt to spine. Tear approximately 4cm between upper joint and cloth, light shelf wear to spine-tips and corners, spine shaken. 5cm tear to map, but contents otherwise clean and bright. A neat, square copy. Bell’s account of her travels along the Euphrates. Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was an explorer, archaeologist, diplomat, and writer. She was an expert Arabist; advocate, along with her friend T. E. Lawrence, of Arab independence, and participant in both the Paris Conference of 1919 and the Cairo Conference of 1921. With a charming contemporary gift inscription in ink to front free endpaper. £300.00