TWELVE DAYS.
An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia. Pp. 144(last advertisement for Passenger to Teheran), 32 photographic plates, appendix, bibliography; demy 8vo; brown & black marbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted, edges slightly rubbed and fore-corners lightly bruised; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, scattered light foxing; published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1928. First edition. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.17(a); Woolmer 176. *Lacking the dust wrapper, as often (Ravenscroft-Hulme states dust wrapper 'not seen'). The appendix, Notes on Distances, Camping-grounds, etc., was contributed by the civil servant (and later politician) Gladwyn Jebb, who met Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West when he served with the British Diplomatic Service in Tehran. Item #165295
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