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Published by Adam & Charles Black, 1914
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Ref.F5 ) Blue cloth boards with blind stamped illustration to centre front, borderlines and gilt spine titles. Darkened spine and discoloured boards with a few small marks, scratches, scuffs and shallow dents. Head and heel of spine are rubbed and creased. Some shelfwear to edges. Corners nudged. Yellowed endpapers, prelims and frontis protective tissue. Previous owner's signature to top of ffep. One or two smudges to occasional page edges else main contents very good and generally unmarked.
Published by G. Bell & Sons, London, 1929
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo. pp xvi, 247. Original publisher's brown cloth with lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Shelf wear at corners and edges of boards. A few small marks on boards. Sun fading at spine of boards. Previous owner's name and date inscribed neatly at front facing end paper. Otherwise contents bright and clean, a good second hand copy.
Published by G Bell & Sons, 1929
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp xvi, 247. Prior owner details to FEP. Bound in brown cloth, spine sunned, a little foxing to end papers. Internally fine with excellent illustrations and a fold out map.
Published by G. Bell & Sons, London, 1929
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner's signature. Some fading to spine. Some marking to spine. Foxing to preliminary leaves and page edges. Spine rubbed and faded. Rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. Creasing to lower margins of some leaves. ; xvi, 247 pages + frontis + folding map at rear + illustrations. Brown cloth boards. Page Dimensions: 218mm x 140mm. Chapters Include: National Stocks in Mesopotamia; The Parthian Period; The Assyrians Under The Sassanid Kings; Life Under The Abbassid Khalifs; The Age Of The Seljuk Turks; Mongol Rule; Tamerlane, And The Coming Of The Ottoman, Under Ottoman Rule; Assyrian Customs; The Great War, And After. ; 8vo.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1914
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Edgar T. Wigram (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of W. A. and Edgar T. A. Wigram's study of Kurdistan and the Assyrian Church. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with forty plates, and with a folding map to the rear, all based upon the sketches and photographs of Edgar Wigram. Collated, complete.Including discussion of Kurdish landscape, religion and customs.With two pages of advertisements to the rear.With the bookplate of F. Diba to the front pastedown.A bright copy of this scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Bump to head of front board. Rubbing to tail of rear board, with tail of rear joint starting, but firmly held. A touch of spotting to text block fore edge. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good. book.
Published by Adam And Charles Black, London,, 1914
First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xii, Frontis and 40 illus & 6 plans in text + 2pp publishers advertisements. Folding map of Kurdistan at rear Original publisher's blue cloth, blocked in gilt to front cover with design of Assyrian or Yezidi priest. Minor wear to extremities in places, spine ends a little bumped and worn; spine uniformly slightly dulled but gilt lettering still bright. An important work on Kurdistan and the Assyrian Church. VG Decent copy. With ownership inscription on ffep, "Edward Anthony Beck, 19 May 1914", and presentation inscription on ffep in Edgar Wigram's hand: "With the authors' compliments". Beck was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and tipped in to the front pastedown is a two-page letter to him, signed by Edgar Wigram, and addressed to "My dear Master". The link is that the authors, who were brothers, had both been students at Trinity Hall, and Edgar Wigram confidently writes of the newly published book that he and his brother "feel that any favour that it can hope for will be given to it at Trinity Hall". William Wigram was an expert on the Assyrian Church of the East, and as part of an English Mission in Kurdistan and Mesopotamia was involved in training Assyrian priests. The many illustrations in the book are from sketches and photographs by Edgar Wigram, who later wrote and illustrated travelogues, of which his book on northern Spain is most celebrated. Edward Anthony Beck (1848-1916), Master of Trinity Hall, was a friend, while an undergraduate and then Fellow at the College, with his contemporary and fellow poet there, Edward Carpenter. Very good. Signedes.