SYKES, Major Percy Molesworth.

The Glory of the Shia World.

The tale of a pilgrimage.

Stock Code 106619

London, Macmillan, 1910

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£385.00 - £385.00

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A fictional tale which the author intended to be 'a second Hajji Baba, which would serve as a true picture of Persia some ten years ago, before constitutional reform appeared on the horizon ...' The story is set in Kerman and Baluchistan and is the tale of a pilgrimage to Mashad. Sykes was the British Consul General in Mashad at the time of writing.

First edition. 8vo, xiv, 279 pp., 4 coloured reproductions from Persian paintings, photographic plates, illustrations in text, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, a fine copy.

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