PHILBY, H. St.J. B. Forty Years In The Wilderness.
London: Robert Hale, (1957). First edition.
Tall 8vo., cloth, 272pp.
Lacking the front free e/paper, name on the half title o/w fine in a d/w with chipping to head of the spine and light wear, very good.
"This book, a further installment of the author's autobiography, the complement of his 'Arabian Days.' From four decades of intimate association with Sa'udi Arabia and its great king, Abdul-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud, the experiences he now recalls illustrate the rise, decline and fall of that unique modern phenomenon: a theocratic state." (rear panel of the d/w). $165 CAD