Author: GLUBB, John Bagot
Title: A Soldier with the Arabs
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Red and blue cloth with black spine lettering. 458pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Very good. Spine a but sunned, else tight and internally bright and fine; lacks dust jacket. Early (not first) printing of this memoir by the British lieutenant general (1897-1986) who from 1939 to 1956 trained and led the protectorate Transjordan's Arab Legion. This copy bears a fine huge presentation and signature in blue ink on the half-title page: "With best wishes / and to remind / you of your / visit to / Amman / John Glubb / 6th February 1958." (Below this, Stevenson clarifies Glubb's illegible signature in black ink, where he pens "Lt. Gen. Sir John Glubb.") After Adlai Stevenson's landslide first defeat to President Eisenhower in 1952, he took a well-publicized world tour and penned articles about it for "Look" magazine; after his second defeat in 1956 he did more of the same. In February 1958 he spent a few days in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, and while in the latter his host was Glubb, who presented him with this volume. Quite a choice copy. .
Keywords: Military History
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Title: A Soldier with the Arabs
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Red and blue cloth with black spine lettering. 458pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Very good. Spine a but sunned, else tight and internally bright and fine; lacks dust jacket. Early (not first) printing of this memoir by the British lieutenant general (1897-1986) who from 1939 to 1956 trained and led the protectorate Transjordan's Arab Legion. This copy bears a fine huge presentation and signature in blue ink on the half-title page: "With best wishes / and to remind / you of your / visit to / Amman / John Glubb / 6th February 1958." (Below this, Stevenson clarifies Glubb's illegible signature in black ink, where he pens "Lt. Gen. Sir John Glubb.") After Adlai Stevenson's landslide first defeat to President Eisenhower in 1952, he took a well-publicized world tour and penned articles about it for "Look" magazine; after his second defeat in 1956 he did more of the same. In February 1958 he spent a few days in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, and while in the latter his host was Glubb, who presented him with this volume. Quite a choice copy. .
Keywords: Military History
Price: US$ 295.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50793
- Book number: 50793
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