8vo. [2], 241 pp., cloth in lightly soiled d/w, previous owner’s inscription verso front cover, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, Michael Russell, Salisbury, first edition, 1980.

Synopsis

This work is a young’s man experiences in the Persia of the Thirties. From the point of view of its junior employees, the author recounts the story of the ‘Banki Shaki’ (the British controlled and managed Imperial Bank of Persia, and provides a living picture of the life of the young men who went to work in the Middle East at that time.