GRIFFIN, Ernest H. Adventures in Tripoli. A Doctor in the Desert. London, Philip Allen, 1924.
8vo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xii, 298, colour frontispiece after a painting by Seppings Wright with tissue guard, numerous plates after photographs; light marking to cloth, text here and there a little spotted; a good copy.
First edition of a first-hand report of life and society in Libya during the Italian invasion in 1912, and the Libyan resistance led by Omar Mukhtar.
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