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The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939 by Freya Stark - 1953

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The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939

by Freya Stark

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John Murray, London, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xviii + 287pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and slightly faded. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Middle East; 1930s; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 39398. .
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  • Publisher John Murray
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1953
  • Keywords BZDB243 travel, bio, history, Middle East Travel & Places; Middle East; 1930s; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded Freya Stark The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939

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London: John Murray. 1953. 8vo, clth boards, b&w plates, map, pp 238. Covered in clear plastic adhesive. Very good condn. 1st edition. Boards.
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John Murray, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 1953 first edition hardback in very good condition. No marks, clean and bright, tight binding, slight marking to the front edge of the green cloth boards, otherwise fine. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with pieces missing from top front and rear, no rear inside flap, the remainder is quite good, unmarked. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.
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The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939

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London: John Murray, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Green buckram with gilt lettering, just very lightly cocked, clean throughout. In a price clipped dust jacket, a little toned at the edges, tiny nicks in the corners and chipped at the spine head. A very good copy.
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London: John Murray, 1953 287pp untrimmed edges, green cloth buckram has slight discolouration via rubbing , front hinge cracked, front endpaper lightly creased.b+w photos, tipped in map on green paper, fore edges slightly foxed. Freya's journeys in Iraq, Greece and Syria and the Hadhramaut. taken from her journals.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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London: John Murray, 1953. Hardcover; 8vo; 286 pages. First edition. Green cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine, gilt signature on upper board. Tops faded, other edges deckled. Prev. owner's name in pen on fep. Yellowing but clean interior. Many photos within. In a green jacket, heavily chipped edges. Yellowed. PC. VG/G-. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-.
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John Murray 1953: Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and to front: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: dust jacket: 286 handcut pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The third volume of Freya Starks autobiography based on her letters of the 1928 33 period, describing her travels in Arabia, and in Greece and Syria immediately before the Second World War. Contents are arranged under the following headings : 1) First Journey to the South, 1933 1935. 2) Iraq Revisited, 1935 1937. 3) The Winter In Huraidha, 1937 1938. 4) Greece and Syria: the Year of Munich, 1938 1939. 5) The War, 1939. Condition: Hard cover and contents firm, clean and good. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket but which is not price-clipped. [xvi], map on green paper, B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages.
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London: John Murray, [1953]. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. xiii, 286 p. illus. 23 cm.
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by Stark, Freya (1893-1993)

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London: John Murray, 1953. First edition. Illustrated. 287pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine in Very good green clipped dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated. 287pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Arcadian Library 15457
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THE COAST OF INCENSE Autobiography 1933-1939

by Stark, Freya

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London: John Murray. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear and very small open tear to DJ. ; The third installment of the self-penned life story of Freya Stark, covering the years 1933-1939; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages .
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