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Arthur Weigall (1880-1934) was an English Egyptologist, journalist and author. This novel capitalised on the intense interest in Egypt after Howard Carter had opened the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922.
First edition
Bibliography code: TFU-22.9
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Series: none
Year: 1922
Format: 8vo
Pages: 316, 4 pp adverts
Binding: Plain crimson cloth boards; title, author and publisher in gold on spine; plain rear boards
Size: 190 x 132 mm
Dust jacket: Signed Blam in white, lower centre
Internal illustrations: none
Price: 7 shillings 6 pence
Printing history: First published June, 1922; Second impression, July, 1923
Printed by: Unwin Borthers, Limited, The Gresham Press, London and Woking
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Notes: My copy has a label for T.N. Hibben & Co, Victoria, B.C. The price has been cut from the spine. A later edition published in 1924 used a dust jacket designed by John Nicolson, a friend of Blampied, who signed his work Nick
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