DE GAURY, Gerald. Faisal. King of Saudi Arabia. London, Arthur Baker Limited, [1967].
Royal 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. xiv, 191, plates after photographs; light rubbing to edges of wrappers one margianl tear to front cover near hinge; otherwise very good.
First edition, second impression. Gerald de Gaury, Arabist traveller, writer and friend of Freya Stark was perfectly suited to intgerview the King in the 1960s, as he had been travelling to SaudiArabia for 30 years and accompanied Faisal as interpreter during his1943 tour of Military Establishments in Great Britain. - This copy with rubber stamp of the Saudi Consulate in London and inscribed in 1972 by one Mr Asiddiqui. Colour photograph of the King pasted inside front cover.
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