Primitive Charm

These are a handful of illustrations from Tales From the Arab Tribes, a collection of stories told by the Arab tribes of the Lower Euphrates, a 1950 publication. The illustrator is John Buckland-Wright, not very well known, but the drawings have a primitive charm. 

It's interesting that I found this volume in the children's section of an old bookshop. Heck yeah, where else would you place it?