Book Description

WESTERN-INFLUENCED BAGHDAD 20 b/w photographic illustrations, 18 line drawings, 5 plans and a folding map. Revised second edition, small 4to, textblock fresh. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled; two small ink stains to the spine, staples rusty. Baghdad.
Dealer Notes
A beautifully decorative guide to the Iraqi capital, “...Prepared not only for the casual visitor but also for the resident.” It contains a
wealth of information on: the climate, appropriate dress, currency, transportation, hotels, sites of interest, cinemas, churches,
mosques, and bookshops. Notable in its European-inspired graphic style, it covers a fascinating last period of direct British
influence in Iraq before successive revolutions.

Scarce. OCLC locates five holdings of this edition at the BL, Leiden, Bibliothek Universität Würzburg and Kunstbibliothek. We locate nine holdings of the first edition worldwide.
Author [ZEKI (Memdouh), ed.]
Date 1953
Binding Softback
Publisher The Times Press
Illustrator [SHUKRI (Akram), ROY (Pat)]
Condition VG
Pages A- X(mostly ads), 1-73,78-79,76-77,74-75,80-126pp

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