"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
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. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Backstrip sunned beneath jacket, top stain a little faded, wrapper is very well preserved showing just a little handling. An excellent example. The diary of Freya Stark's expeditions and excavations in Arabia in 1937 and 1938. Item #75318
Price: £395.00
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