BATTISS IN THE HADHRAMAUT (signed by the authors)

64 pages, colour frontispiece, 1 full page colour plate, 44 full page black and white sketches, 2 maps, other black and white illustrations, brown paper covered boards, a very good copy in a slightly frayed dust jacket.

Signed on the verso of the title page and numbered no 268 of an unspecified number of copies.

From the editor's note. It was Battiss's dream one day to publish a book about his travels in Southern Arabia to share with us the thrills of his Arabian nights – and days. And although he did not fulfil this dream, he did convey to us his exceptional attraction for the desert by means of his drawings. He once said” Who wants to talk of a lovesickness for the desert that must be thought of and felt without words, with silences for nouns and breathing for verbs.”