8vo. 225pp, [1]. With eight leaves of photographic plates. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers, later rebacked. A trifle rubbed and marked. Leaves browned. Signed by Morris on title page.

A signed, proof copy of Jan Morris's (1926-2020) history of the Hashemite dynasty, direct descendants of the Prophet, with an account of the tumultuous collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the British intervention in events by such exalted figures as T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark, and Ronald Storrs.