ROBIN MAUGHAM. — Nomad. (INSCRIBED)

Chapman & Hall, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy humorously inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For Andy, once again to get his - - sideburns CUT. With love from Robin 23 Nov 1957". 8vo. 243pp. Beige cloth lettered in green at the spine and with the publisher's black stain to the upper edge. Map-illustrated endpapers. Printed on lesser quality economy wartime paperstock, yet still a very crisp copy in toned, rubbed and lightly spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a short internally repaired snag to the rear panel. The author's second book, an account of his travels in the Levant, and including encounters with Glubb Pasha and Ernest Altounyan (the basis for the "swallow's" father in Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons', and a close friend of T.E.Lawrence)., Good, Good