A Bedouin Boyhood

London: Allen & Unwin, 1967. First edition. Hardcover quarto in red DJ. 176 pages; 21 cm. Previous owners name in ink to front free end paper. DJ is priceclipped to front flap. Mild soiling to back cover of DJ. DJ in archival mylar. Fine book in very good DJ. . Hardcover.

Contents: The small cow-herd -- Bin Rizk, a thief -- Ramadan fair -- The coming and the going -- Once -- Little birds -- The return -- A household a little way off -- There was the time I got lost -- That old man in room nine -- The bare earth -- In a late spring, long ago -- Theban -- Headmaster -- A young voice remembering -- The world advancing -- The course of events -- A small man going downhill. Bedouins. Manners and customs. Biography. Histoires de vie (ethnologie). Childhood and youth. Arab countries -- Social life and customs.