S. W. Persia.
£25.00
Publisher
Readers Union Limited by arrangement with Oxford University Press.
Place
London
Date
1942
Synopsis
Letters and diary of a young political officer 1907-1914. by sir arnold wilson.
Item Description
8vo. 7.25 x5 inches. ix + [i] + 305 pp. Bound in original buff cloth, with re and black spine titles. Extremities worn including spine and small stains on boards. Page edges, flyleaves, preliminary and end pages foxed, scattered elsewhere; otherwise a very good copy Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884-1940) was a soldier, colonial administrator and Persian specialist, later Conservative MP. In 1939 he joined the RAF as an air gunner, but his Wellington bomber crashed near Dunkirk in 1940. Book club edition of the OUP first of 1942.
[Stock No. 29986]
