Dickson Violet (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0049200321. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. THIRD IMPRESSION. Hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (22 x 14 x 3.5 cm); pp. 335. English text. Bound in publisher's covers; supplied with the original dust jacket; half-title; illustrated. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers and contents very well-preserved. Dust jacket neatly price-clipped. Without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. worn with minor edge tears. First Published 1971. The hardcover book is in good condition, with a dust jacket that is worn and exhibits minor edge tears. The binding remains intact and firm, with no visible inscriptions or library markings. The pages are clean, enhancing the readability and preservation of this historical memoir.…

copertina rigida. Condition: Fine. Condizioni dettagliate: Ottime, nulla da segnalare, copertina rigida.

The copy of the dust-jacket illustrator of this scarce work on Kuwait and Bahrain. Valentine Hugh Wilfred Dowson (d.1980) served in the Mesopotamia Campaign in WW1 and stayed as an intelligence agent/date dealer, living in Basra with Margaret Joy Dowson. As part of the British political scene in the Gulf they would certainly have known the Dicksons and Margaret Joy would have been the ideal person to ask for an illustration of a date-palm with appears on the front cover. Someone has clearly taken the trouble to preserve the dust-jacket but cutting and pasting the salient portions to the first pages inside. Violet Dickson spent twenty-eight years in Arabia, along with her husband, Lt.-Col. Dickson. This afforded her the opportunity to gather botanical specimens for Kew, as well as mammal specimens for the British Museum and Smithsonian Institute. The standard work on the subject. Scarce. First edition; 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); ownership stamps to endpapers, dust-jacket cover and blurb pasted to free endpaper and half-title with manuscript captions, errata slip; publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a touch of rubbing, a very good copy; 144 pp. Provenance: Valentine Hugh Wilfred Dowson and Margaret Joy Dowson (stamps).…

With original dustjacket in excellent condition. First edition, first printing. Violet was the wife of H. R. P. Dickson, author of 'The Arab of the Desert' and 'Kuwait and her Neighbours'.

First edition of this attractively illustrated monograph. Dickson's book, "now a precious rarity, is full of interest. She describes the flowers simply and accurately, capturing the essence of each one and making it clearly recognizable" (Shuaib, p. 20). Dickson (1896-1991) was married to Harold Dickson, a British political agent in Bahrain (1919-20) and Kuwait (1929-36) and subsequently an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. She stayed in Kuwait after her husband's death in 1959 until the Iraqi invasion in 1990, becoming a prominent member of the expatriate community. A desert flower, Horwoodia Dicksoniae, is named after her. Not in Macro. Linda Shuaib, Wildflowers of Kuwait, 1995. Octavo. With 5 plates (2 colour, 3 half-tone), 3 maps (1 double-page), illustrations and maps in text; errata slip tipped to p. 98. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red. Spine sunned, cloth clean, contents page toned: a very good copy.…

First edition of this attractively illustrated monograph. Dickson's book, "now a precious rarity, is full of interest. She describes the flowers simply and accurately, capturing the essence of each one and making it clearly recognizable" (Shuaib, p. 20). Dickson (1896-1991) was married to Harold Dickson, a British political agent in Bahrain (1919-20) and Kuwait (1929-36) and subsequently an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. She stayed in Kuwait after her husband's death in 1959 until the Iraqi invasion in 1990, becoming a prominent member of the expatriate community. A desert flower, Horwoodia Dicksoniae, is named after her. Not in Macro. Linda Shuaib, Wildflowers of Kuwait, 1995. Octavo. With 5 plates (2 colour, 3 half-tone), 4 maps, illustrations and maps in text; errata slip tipped to p. 98. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. Ink stamp of Kuwait Oil Company School dated 15 November 1955. Cloth fresh with just a little sunning at spine ends; jacket unclipped, some chipping and short closed tears: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.…

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "With the author's compliments. Violet Dickson. Kuwait 17.5.71." This detailed autobiography describes meeting with Ibn Saud and societal changes brought about by the oil boom. Dickson (1896-1991) was married to Harold Dickson, the British political agent in Bahrain (1919-20) and Kuwait (1929-36) and subsequently an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. She stayed in Kuwait after her husband's death in 1959 until the Iraqi invasion in 1990, becoming a prominent member of the expatriate community. She also published The Wild Flowers of Kuwait and Bahrain in 1955. The desert flower, Horwoodia dicksoniae, is named after her. Below Dickson's inscription is a second: "Susan: and mine, in the hope that when your book on your years in Kuwait is published - based on your letters home - you will let me have a complimentary copy. Len. Kuwait. '71." Both the recipient and the inscriber remain unidentified. Octavo. With 16 half-tone plates, maps in text. Original orange boards, spine lettered in silver, top edge orange. With pictorial dust jacket. Small mark at foot of spine, extremities lightly bumped, a few leaves dog-eared; jacket unclipped, spine sunned, couple of nicks and chips, wear at extremities, especially spine ends: a very good copy in like jacket.…

First edition, third impression. 8 leaves of plates (with 16 photographic illustrations) and 5 maps in the text. 8vo. Fine original orange cloth, silver lettering to spine, in a near fine dust-jacket; minor creases and dents to extremities of jacket. Small split in textblock before plates but structurally sound. 335pp. London, George Allen & Unwin,  A fascinating autobiography describing Dickson's long residence in Kuwait. It is one of the best memoirs of life there in the decades just before and after the discovery of oil. The author grew up in Lincolnshire and found herself working for the Marseilles branch of a British bank after the First World War. It was there that she met the young soldier-diplomat H.R.P. Dickson, who was en route to the Persian Gulf via India. A surprise proposal followed and Violet spent the first decade of married life in Iraq, India and Iran.  The Dicksons moved to Kuwait in 1929 when Harold was appointed British Political Agent. The majority of the book covers his residency (up to 1936), later employment with the Kuwait Oil Company (1936-39), Kuwait during WWII and Violet's continuation there after Harold's passing in 1959. Her writing on those decades is both a personal account of a remarkably adventurous marriage, and a sensitive exposition of Kuwait's modern transformation.…