THE COAST OF INCENSE Autobiography 1933-1939
by Stark, Freya
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
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.
[xvi], map on green paper, B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69
- Title
- THE COAST OF INCENSE Autobiography 1933-1939
- Author
- Stark, Freya
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo 9" x 6" 286 handcut pages
- Weight
- 1.76 lbs
- Keywords
- Freya Stark, Middle East Autobiography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; First Edition; History; Biography;
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