INNES, Hammond (author). The Doomed Oasis. A Novel of Arabia. London; Collins. 1960.
8vo.; publisher's black cloth lettered gilt to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper with photographic portrait of the author to lower panel; pp. [xii], 13-320; externally near fine with slight vertical crease to spine, in an unusually fresh, lightly dusted, toned, and price-clipped dustwrapper with tiny nicking and rubbing to head of spine; without ownership inscription..
First edition. A 1960s' thriller set in the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula involving a fight for desert oil and a son's quest to find his father.
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