Kuwait and Her Neighbours
George Allen & Unwin, 1956.
First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, green title label to spine, lettered gilt, in the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper. Colour frontispiece, forty-five black and white illustrations across fifteen plates, fifteen illustrations in the text, twelve genealogical tables and two maps. In the pocket at the end there is additionally; one black and white illustration; three genealogical tables and four maps. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, generally bright, price-clipped, light rubbing to spine ends and a couple of short closed tears to the edges.
Rare in the dustwrapper.
Dickson was a colonial adminstrator in the Persian Gulf, serving in Bahrain, Persian and Kuwait over a long career. A blend of description and reminiscence, Dickson's work both covers the sweeping history of the region from the 1740s to the 1950s, as well as the disappearing local customs in the Gulf.
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