Traveller's Prelude: An Autobiography

London: John Murray, 1951. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A smart later edition of this illustrated autobiography from British-Italian explorer Freya Stark. Later edition, originally published September 1950. Illustrated with a double-paged sketch map of Northern Italy and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. The first volume of autobiographical writings from Dame Freya Madeline Stark, a British-Italian explorer and travel writer who wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot predominantly to the endpapers. Very Good