Book Description

This scarce book can best be described as a relatively modern air book about Iraq that integrates with the adventures of travel and a remarkably vivid survey of 5,000 years of history in Iraq & the Near East. Winston Churchill once famously dudded 'Iraq the Clapham Junction of the air.' It includes a Preface by His Excellency H E Sayid Ja'far al Askeri G.C.V.O., C.M.G.
Author 'H.W.' and Sidney Hay (H.W. = Wing Cmdr. W Howard-Williams)
Date 1937 (First Edition)
Binding Black cloth with gilt titles on spine + gilt emblem of an eagle on front cover
Publisher Hutchinson
Illustrator Black/white photo plates (62pp) + 3 unlisted photo collages on + 2 maps on 1 folding sheet at rear (the Near East ; Iraq)
Condition G+ (Bottom corners slightly bumped & rubbed ; age toning on half-title page)
Pages 310

Price: £200.00

Offered by Geoff Cox Books

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