LEVY, Reuben. A Baghdad Chronicle. Cambridge, University Press, 1929.
8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. xi, 279, four plates after photographs; wrapper with a little marginal fraying and darkening; text a little spotted; a good copy in the rarely preserved dust-wrappers.
First edition of this 'social history of Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphs. Interwoven with the politics of the period … [Levy] gives a picture of the daily life of the city, its customs and manners and its typical citizens' (blurb inside front flap).
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