Product Description
The scarce first UK edition copy of this fascinating travelogue of Yemen by Ameen Rihani.
The scarce first UK edition, published in the same year as true first US edition.
In publisher's original brown cloth binding.
Illustrated with twenty-four photographic plates, including frontispiece.
Collated, complete.
A travel work by Ameen Rihani, a Lebanese American writer known as a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America.
Here he explores Yemen, sharing observations and impressions, and descriptions of his travels to San'a, of the Zioud, and notes on its architecture and treasures, the ghetto, women, uses and customs, and much more.
In publisher's cloth binding.
Externally, smart.
Fading to spine, with light bumping to the head and tail.
Cloth split to rear joint, and to head of front joint.
Fading to head of rear board, with the odd mark.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are bright and clean.
Very Good
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