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Hardback. Acceptable.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2014. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2014 Tauris Parke Paperbacks softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. With such tantalising chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer" this is a witty, eye-opening tapestry of Freya Stark's writings on travel and a life spent as one of the 20th century's most formidable adventuresses. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 years, from 1919 to 1967, Stark ranges from eloquent musings on the nature of travel, of being a woman - both writer and explorer - in what was then predominantly a male world and jewel-bright stories from across the world - Arabia to North Africa, Iran and India - that captivate the reader with every sentence. There are romantic picnics under starlit skies on remote islands, meaningful moments of quiet in Mecca and Jerusalem and heartfelt accounts of… Leer más

Harcourt Brace and Company. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. Slightly dampstained. (Middle East, travel, travel writing )

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

London: John Murray, 1968 Ex-Linrary Copy in green cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket chipped and creased around edges. Inside jacket cover has some liquid splash marks. Usual library stamps and labels. Clean text

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1968. Unopened. D/w clipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

John Murray, 1968. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. viii+230pp, b/w frontis, endpapers tanned, dustjacketprice clipped & a little worn along the edges. A collection of 34 previously un-published short travel essays. Freya Madeline Stark [ 1893 - 1993 ] British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1968-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.8173 cent in x 23.1726 cent in x 16.6751 cent in. First edition without jacket on green cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

London, John Murray, 1968, hardcover, viii-230 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, lower corners bumped, slight abrasions to blank front endpapers, color offsetting to endpapers. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, some loosening of surface laminate, in new Brodart sleeve. Thirty-four previously unpublished philosophical musings from the intrepid traveler in the style of her earlier book 'Perseus in the Wind'.

VG HC w/DJ

New York: Harcourt, 1969. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). viii + 230 pages, 12mo, blue cloth, decorative d.w., lightly edgeworn. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1969). First American edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

John Murray, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Published by John Murray, 1968. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 230 pages. ISBN: 9780719517846. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Light wear to cloth tips, jacket rear panel browned .

John Murray, 1968. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt, a tightly bound copy with a text free of marking, The price clipped dust jacket is well preserved, toning to the front free endpaper, viii + 227pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.. Very Good. (1969). Hardcover. Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone, and a self-portrait by the author. A near fine copy in a near fine dj. .

John Murray, London, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 230pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the author's facsimile signature gold-stamped to the upper board. With a frontispiece self-portrait sketch and various wood-engraved decorations by Reynolds Stone. Endpapers lightly browned, and with some offsetting of the lettering from the wrapper flaps. Publisher's green top edge stain slightly faded. A very good copy in good price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly chafed at two or three extremities, with a shot surface tear to the head of the rear panel, and some lifting of the publishers laminate in one or two small areas. A brief foreword by the author precedes thirty-five assorted travelling tales, all hitherto unprinted..

London: John Murray, 1968. Book. Illus. by Stone, Reynolds. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good neat and clean copy. Internally clean and sound. In unclipped d/w that is in fine condition. 229pp..

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Reynolds Stone woodcuts. Fine/Near fine (price clipped). In Mylar cover. Out of print. A compilation of Stark's travel writings, brought together in book form for the first time, and spanning her life. Fine Reynolds Stone woodcuts. Binding is cloth boards.