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[MIDDLE EAST]. TWEEDY, Maureen. Bahrain and the Persian Gulf. Ipswich: East Anglian Magazine Ltd., [1952]. Small 8vo. Illustrated with numerous photographs by the author. [80] pp. Publisher's full light green cloth, spine stamped in black, publisher's unclipped dust jacket (no price seen on flaps; light rubbing to cloth binding, light offsetting to endleaves; jacket has several tape repairs to verso, jacket spine a bit toned, chipped, jacket with marginal tears, chips, some soiling to jacket). A fine copy in a good jacket. FIRST EDITION IN THE RARE DUST JACKET OF THIS RARE GUIDE BOOK TO THE PERSIAN GULF. This scarce guidebook was written shortly after the beginning of full-scale oil drilling in the region, and includes chapters on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the Trucial Coast (modern-day United Arab Emirates), and Muscat Oman, covering local history, society and culture, with a chapter on the pearl industry. Tweedy prophetically writes that Doha is "practically untouched by the progressive hands of the West and the camels and donkeys outnumber the motor-cars how long this simplicity will last is hard to say, for the enormous increase in oil revenues must inevitably affect the lives of all" (pp. 39-40).