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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. First Edition. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. Moderate foxing to title page. Some rubbing and light vertical creasing to spine cloth. Previous owner's signature. ; vii, [3], 246 pages + frontispiece + 7 plates. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 141mm. Illustrations are: The Spirit of Morocco; A Beauty of the Berber Clan; The Most Welcome Sight to All Desert Travellers; Arab Children Also Play Marbles; The Courtyard of El Raisuli's Palace at Argila; A Village of Mud Houses in the Atlas Mountains; A Corner of the Suk for Copper Ware; Entrance to a "Fondak". Chapter titles: A Bath and a Baggage; Sand and Sun; Women of the Death Squad; Suzanne; Arzila; Sur Les Toits D'Arzila; A Trap for Loyalists; Woman's Place in War; Spawn of the Devil; Valley of Death; Adusha; Beyond the Spanish Protectorate. "It was a night that dripped with the soft mellow light of a low-hanging, orange-coloured moon. Every particle of scattered vegetation stood out in stark relief over that flat sheet of earth, which gleamed under the moon's rays like polished steel." - page 1.