Dinning, Hector and McBey, James
Title |
Nile to Aleppo, with the Light Horse in the Middle East |
Date |
London 1920 |
Publisher |
George Allen & Unwin Ltd |
Description
First Edition. Publisher's brown cloth with blind border to front board and gilt lettering to front board and spine, fore and bottom edges of the page block uncut. Clear, removable, protective archival cover fitted to the book. Quarto. pp. [1-6] 7-288 with five colour plates, including the frontispiece, five etchings and three sketches, thirteen tipped in plates altogether, including one, at p.225, of Lieut.-Col. T.E. Lawrence, C.B., D.S.O., M.C. a painting by James McBey with the notation 'Damascus, October, 1918.
Condition
A book in Good condition with creasing at foot of spine, a short (one inch) partial split at the foot of the front hinge and a crease in the back board.