"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
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 of Stark's Middle Eastern experiences during the war, as an official with the Diplomatic Corps, including her part in the Embassy siege, Baghdad, 1941. Item #75294
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