THE RARE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF A WORK THESIGER DESCRIBED AS ‘A PERSONAL FAVOURITE’
THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. Desert Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad. London: W. & J. Mackay Limited for William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.
Quarto (269 x 207mm), pp. [1]-304, [2 (blank)]. Numerous photographic illustrations after Thesiger, et al., some full- or double-page, maps after Tom Stalker-Miller, some full- or double-page. Original half brown morocco gilt over oatmeal buckram by Robert Hartnoll Limited, Bodmin spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in 2 and with imprint at the foot, others with central gilt sun design, all edges gilt, Cockerell-marbled endpapers, original oatmeal buckram covered slipcase with gilt morocco lettering-piece on upper panel. (Slipcase slightly spotted and marked, and rubbed at extremities.) Loosely inserted printed order form for the limited and trade issues of the work. A very good, clean copy of the rare signed and limited edition, with the ephemeral publisher’s order form.
First edition, limited issue, no. 50 of 160 specially-bound, numbered copies signed by the author. A superbly illustrated record of Thesiger’s travels in Abyssinia, Yemen, Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chitral, dating from his birth in 1910 to 1978, which is prefaced by a ‘Biographical Summary and List of Principal Travels, 1910-78’ and a short-title list of ‘Other Books and Articles by Wilfred Thesiger’. In the foreword to the revised 1993 edition published by Motivate, Thesiger commented that ‘[t]his book has always been a personal favourite, capturing as it does the wide scope of my journeys and my affinity with the nomadic way of life. Journeying at walking pace under conditions of some hardship, I was happiest when I had no communication with the outside world, and was utterly dependent on my tribal companions’.
The first edition of Desert Marsh and Mountain was published in two issues: the publisher’s trade edition and this specially bound edition signed by the author. The present signed edition was limited to only 160 copies, of which numbers 151 to 160 were not for sale.
P.N. Grover, ‘Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger’ in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, p. 271.
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