DOODY, John. The Burning Coast. London: Michael Joseph. [1955].
8vo. Original cloth with wrapper (retaining price) designed by Beytagh; pp. 255, portrait frontispiece, plates after photographs, folding map at rear; small spot to lower panel of wrapper, a little offsetting from endpapers and plates to adjacent text; otherwise a very good copy with contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf.
Very rare first edition of a gripping account by a former member of the Palestine Police on patrolling the Eritrean coast after the defeat of the Italians. Doody had to confront smugglers, seize arms, criminal money, fugitive Italians and slaves. It contains detailed descriptions of the Eritrean coast and its inhabitants.
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