The Great Arab Conquests [with] Empire of the Arabs [with] The Course of Empire [with] The Lost Centuries
GLUBB, John Bagot
THE 'ARAB' TETRALOGY IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1963-67]
Stock code: 50461
Price: £440.00
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, facsimiles, pedigrees and maps throughout, previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper of final volume; original cloth (red/blue/green/black respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped), the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
With personal bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Glubb Pasha'a masterly tetralogy comprises The Great Arab Conquests [630-680] (1963), Empire of the Arabs [680-860] (1963), The Course of Empire [860 onwards] (1966) and The Lost Centuries [1145-1453] (1967). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION