Author: KNOX-MAWER, JUNE.
Title: The Sultans Came to Tea.
Description: London: John Murray, 1961. 1st edition. A vivacious and revealing record of the experiences of the young wife of a newly appointed Chief Magistrate in Aden, giving a picture of life in the English Colony of the Protectorate. June Knox-Mawer was the friend and companion of the Sultans, rode and shot with them in their territories bordering on the Yemen and was able to enter their harems and meet their families. Pp.xii/218, 1 map + 19 black and white photo illustrations, owner's name to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers, mark (tea splash?) to lower margin of p.16 and corresponding photo plate. Orange cloth, dustwrapper has wear to edges with tears and chipped losses to top of spine. G+/G.

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