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Freya Stark | First Editions
1893 - 1993
See below our stock of Freya Stark First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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East is West.
London: John Murray, 1945. [Middle East travel / Politics] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 218. With many photographic plates, one map on green paper stock. Publisher's blue-green cloth blocked in gilt, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12/6. No inscriptions. Contents clean, jacket is particularly bright. An account..... More
Seen in the Hadhramaut.
London: John Murray, 1938. [Arabian Travel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.xxiv; 199 [1]. A double-sided black and white photographic plate as every other leaf, with captions facing, and a green sketch-map. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with green titles to spine and upper, photographic dust-wrapper with pink..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel Autobiography] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Octavo (23 x 15 x 13cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Each with a green sketch-map and numerous black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt..... More
A Winter in Arabia.
London: John Murray, 1940. [Arabian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.328; [4] advertisements. Illustrated with photographic plates. Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt titles to spine and author's signature in gilt to upper, fore and tail edges untrimmed, top edge blue; pale blue pictorial dust wrapper priced at 16s..... More
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