MORRIS, James. The Hashemite Kings. London: Faber. 1959.
8vo. Original cloth and dust wrapper (not price-clipped; however, with frayed margins); pp. 231, black and white plates after photographs; light offsetting from endpapers, otherwise a good copy; from Harrison Zoological Museum in Kent, with their rubber stamp to front fly-leaf.
First edition. A complete history of the oldest Arabic dynasty, direct descendants of the Prophet, together with the turmoil ensuing after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and British intervention which involved T. E. Lawrence, Glubb Pasha, Nasser, Ibn Saud, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark and Ronald Storrs.
O'Brien F0760.
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