c1925 MOROCCO CASABLANCA RABAT FEZ SAHARA HAREM Old Photos TANGIER Snake Charmer

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c1925 MOROCCO CASABLANCA RABAT FEZ SAHARA HAREM Old Photos TANGIER Snake Charmer:
$24.50

THE MAGIC OF MOROCCO, by Eleanor Elsner. Published by Dodd Mead. No date given but is circa 1928. First American edition. The author traveled to Morocco in the early part of the last century. “When I first talked of going to Morocco, everyone said: ‘Ah but you should have gone twenty years ago, when you took your life in your hands and it was a dangerous adventure!’ But I have found the not fascinating countries those which do not hold dangerous adventure as their chief attraction…And so I read and dreamed of Morocco through all the cold and cheerless months of a wet summer and gradually that strange pull of a foreign land grew irresistibly in my heart. And so, in a very short time I knew I was going to Morocco and that nothing whatever wouId stop me.” Some of the contents include: the fascination of the desert, Casablanca, outbreak of holy war, Marrakesh gate, across the Bled, Safi, Mogador, the Kotoubia, Jama-el-F’Na, Meknes, Moulai Idriss, Rabat, visit to a harem, marriage customs, Tangiers, Tetouan, charms and potions, Fez, visit to court house and trial of prisoners, much more. With frontispiece photograph of a souk, plus 15 other photographs, including Casablanca, a desert caravan, a snake charmer, Bab Mensour in Meknes, the old gate and old walls of Chella, town market, camel fondouk, native street in Fez, and others. Hardcover, gilt titles on spine, maps on the endpapers. 319 pages. Very good condition, binding tight, no markings. Gilt titles on spine slightly faded.