[VOYAGES AND TRAVELS]. [FINE PRESS BOOKS]. PHILBY, Harry St. John (1885-1960). A Pilgrim in Arabia. [London:] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1943]. 4to. Portrait frontispiece. [192] pp. Publisher's quarter Niger over cream buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands.

Binding rubbed, soiled, front joint a bit creased, some offsetting to endleaves, occasional minor wrinkling in text, a few page unopened at top. Near fine. THE TRUE FIRST EDITION, #36/350 COPIES. Rare. "The chapter describing the Mecca pilgrimage was the first authentic personal record by an Englishman of the ceremonies as practised today. There followed a chapter on Medina, and others - one describing a holiday in Persia - which must have proved of exceptional interest to travelers and students of foreign life and affairs." (Cockalorum 154).