In Araby Orion

(no dust jacket) [good solid book, spine lettering heavily rubbed, a little fading to black cloth at and adjacent to spine, some dust-soiling to top of text block; ownership signature of American poet-novelist Sanora Babb on half-title page; vintage bookseller's label from the famous Hollywood bookseller Stanley Rose Ltd. Fine Books on rear pastedown]. (pen and ink drawings) Anti-war novella, derived from Thompson's service in Palestine with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I. "The whole humor, passion and tenderness of war is captured here in little, in a delicate and sharply colored beauty. This short prose masterpiece . is one of the most beautiful elegies ever written." (Quoted from the dust jacket, not present on this copy of the book.) The author was also an accomplished poet.

Product Info

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Year: (c.1930)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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