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STEVENS, E[thel] S[tefana]: : BY TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES

LONDON.HURST & BLACKETT,LTD.,1923.

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UK,thick 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.VG-. Owner's handwritten,inked name to ffe. Publisher's original red cloth boards with shelf-wear,rubbing to edges and bumped corners,a dulled spine with dulled but still discernible,gilt letters to same. Both boards with sun bleaching to tops (approx 1.1/2" wide horizontal band) and towards the gutter's edges (approx 1/2" vertical strip) due to proximity of smaller sized books being stored either side of the book,along with other sporadic,minor blemishes,spots.Front board with blind-tooled double-line border at edges,rear board plain and undecorated. Plain white endpapers clean - owner name excepted to front - with rear hinge cracked and some minimal spotting to rear pastedown.Head+foot of spine with inevitable and usual but minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing and miniscule splits and fraying and minimal loss,if any at all.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but clean without any trace of foxing/ spotting - particularly,if not exceptionally,clean for book of its age. Contents bright,generally tight and firmly bound but lightly strained in a couple of signatures,clean with no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.The only corner creases result from the bumped corners of boards, particularly both lower corners to a minor degree.UK,thick 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn, vii-xivpp+17-349pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a preface,separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,Pts I-V (1-5) comprising 8,2,3,4 and 8 chapters respectively,appendices (2,one with b/w facsimile reproduction of script used in Yazidi Holy Books),68 contemporary monochrome photographs (majority taken by author herself,others lent by Sir Arnold Wilson,Messrs Victor and others) - all called for and present,though pp288 is partially attached but still in situ,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title with offset foxing shadow from front free endpaper,b/w photographic frntis,title page with minimal,faint sporadic foxing/ spotting,similarly affected dedication page,individual Pts+Index separator pages and to the rear of book,2pp blanks with both recto+verso with foxing. Described in detail,but honestly and fairly.An uncommon,almost scarce - only ONE other example noted listing - title from amongst her travelogue works.As such, a collectable example in her erudite style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon of her Middle Eastern cultural anthropology. Several of the chapters have appeared in either part or whole as articles in the; Near East','Outward Bound',Baghdad Times' and 'Times of Mesopotamia'. Ethel Stefana STEVENS,(b. 1 December 1879 – d. 27 January 1972) also known under her married name,Ethel Stefana Drower,was a cultural anthropologist who specialised in the Middle East and its cultures.She was the primary specialist on the Mandaeans during her time and was the chief collector of Mandaean manuscripts.In 1921, she accompanied her husband to Iraq where Sir Edwin Drower was adviser to the Justice Minister from 1921 to 1946.It was in 1923 during that residence there,that she came into contact with the Mandaeans, or Subba.In 1931 she began to study their literature,history and religion,rapidly achieving a reputation as the leading authority on that subject.A contribution of knowledge from Mr. C. L. Woolley for information on the excavations at Ur,given by him to the author. Please contact the seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,thick 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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