SUDAN SAND: Filming the Baggara Arabs

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original beige cloth with titles in brown to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 63 black and white photographs throughout. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and corners, the cloth with a few light marks. The contents, with some spotting to the text block edges and prelims, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper that is chipped at the spine tips and fold corners and with several short closed tears with associated creasing. Not price-clipped (15/- to the front flap). Scarce in the dustwrapper.

Stella Court Treatt (1895-1976) was a South African filmmaker and adventurer who took part in the first successful expedition by motor car from Cape Cod to Cairo in 1924-26. This title documents Court Treatt and her husband's expedition through Sudan in which they filmed the 1929 feature film 'Stampede', which Court Treatt wrote and co-directed.