Arabian Sands
London: Longmans, 1959.
First edition. Signed by Wilfred Thesiger on the title page. xvi, 326 pp. with b/w plates. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt; map present in pocket at rear. Very Good+ with foxing to endpapers and top edge, in a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed, red on spine panel sunned, foxing, price on front flap torn off. The author's first book, a classic of travel literature about his journeys through the Rub' al Khali or Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula.
Price: $4,000
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