Ronald Storrs — Orientations

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1937. Cloth. Smart early edition of the autobiography of Ronald Storrs, profusely illustrated with plates and maps. Second impression.In publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with fourteen monochrome plates, including a frontispiece, a couple of additional vignettes, map endpapers and one folding map. Collated, complete.The insightful autobiography of Sir Ronald Storrs, significant official of the British Foreign Office, who served as Oriental Secretary of Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, and friend of T. E. Lawrence. This work recounts his fascinating career and countless travels. In publisher's original cloth binding. Contemporary inscription from a previous owner to the page facing the half title, dated Xmas 1937. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in a couple of minor closed tears to the spine head and tail, and a few marks. Internally, binding a little tense in pages, particularly to page 368, otherwise firmly bound. Reasonably bright and clean with light sporadic spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .