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Hardcover. Zustand: near fine. First edition. Octavo. (10), 264pp. Index and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with black spine lettered in white. Illustrated with 3 photographs. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879?1972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960s. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta. (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction From Lady E.S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence; Chapter One Sfar Malwa?ia (= SM); Chapter Two Water into Wine (= WW); Chapter Three A Mandaic Dictionary; Chapter Four The Early 1960s: A Controversial Book, A Spat, and A Prize; Chapter Five Mass and Masiqta (= MM): "From the Tigris to the Tiber"; Epilogue; E.S. Drower Bibliography: Works Relevant to Mandaeism; Index of Names. Volume 137 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 214. 36 illustrations. By the anthropologist Lady Drower (1879 - 1972). Uncommon. 'Perhaps none of the minorities of 'Iraq has caused more curiosity than the people called Yazidis, owing to their secret cult of the Peacock Angel, whom Moslem neighbours assert to be none other than Lucifer himself, Prince of all Evil. This book describes the life of these mountian tribesmen, as seen in a Yazidi village, the priests of hte cult, the dramatic Spring festival, and the hill sanctuaary of Shaikh 'Adi.' Head of spine slightly creased spine very slightly faded 1943 non authorial inscription on front end paper with black mark crossing out one detail of this (the location of a club) otherwise very good with clean text. .

First Edition. Ethel Stefana Stevens, Lady Drower weas a prominent early woman traveller to the middle east. Though untrained as a scholar, she learned Arabic while stationed with her husband in Iraq, and would later teach herself Aramaic as well. While in Iraq, Drower began to develop what would become a lifelong fascination with the Mandaeans. This copy of her famous work on Iraqi culture, religion, and archaeology has been rebound in a high quality binding of black quarter leather on cloth. No inscriptions. VG+. Scarce.

First and only edition of Lady Drower's comparative study of ritual meals in the region. Typical of her output, it demonstrates how, without formal academic training, she immersed herself in the cults and rites of various minor religious and ethnic groups, applying remarkable observational and descriptive abilities to render lucid and engrossing accounts. It is well represented institutionally but uncommon commercially. Ethel Stefana Stevens (1879-1972) was a cultural anthropologist who specialized in the Middle East and its cultures. In 1921, she accompanied her husband, Sir Edwin Drower, to Iraq where he was an adviser to the Justice Minister until 1946. During their stay, she became especially devoted to the Mandaeans, an ethnoreligious group, native to the alluvial plain of southern Mesopotamia, rapidly achieving a reputation as the leading authority on that subject. Stevens "did not restrict herself to the role of an 'official' wife. Some of her time she devoted to travel and to learning Arabic. As a woman she had access to the women's quarters which were normally denied to men" (ODNB). The author's "exploits as a journalist during the Iraqi civil war in the early 1920s were rather out of keeping with jealous preconceptions of the behaviour of the daughter of an Anglican cleric. Honoured by Uppsala and Oxford with doctorates but now largely forgotten, she is another woman of the Middle East who deserves renewed recognition" (Rich, p. 205). Not in Robinson or Theakstone. Paul J. Rich (ed.). Iraq and Gertrude Bell's The Arab of Mesopotamia, 2008. Octavo. Frontispiece and 16 other plates, figures to the text. Original vivid bluish green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With the pictorial dust jacket. Pale toning to the endpapers, else a clean, sharp copy; price-clipped jacket just a touch rubbed on the back panel, short closed tear, archival tape repair verso, to front panel: an excellent copy.