ABDULLAH, KING OF TRANSJORDAN. Memoirs … Edited by Philip P. Graves, with an introductuin by R.J.C. Broadhurst. London Jonathan Cape, [1950].
8vo. Original printed wrappers, not price-clipped; pp. 278, three portraits of the King, apart from minimal rubbing to edges of the wrappers and a little spotting, a very good copy.
First English edition, first printing, translated from the Arabic by G. Khuri. 'The work of an Arab of the highest lineage' (blurb on front flap) with many references to T.E. Lawrence, who preferred to fight alongside Abdullah's brother during the Arab Uprising.
O'Brien F0002.
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