The Southern Gates Of Arabia
by Stark, Freya
Freya Stark, described by The Times of London as "the last of the Romantic Travellers" upon her death in 1993, published during her lifetime more than thirty books about her travels in the Middle East, including The Southern Gates of Arabia.Jane Fletcher Geniesse is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of the biography Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, a finalist for the 1999 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, New York magazine, and Town & Country. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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London: Folio Society 2014. (Hardcover in slipcase) 318pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt and spine and cover decorations and cover illustration in a near fine blue slipcase. Photographs, maps, appendix, index. The slipcase is very lightly bumped at the top. " 'The beckoning counts,' Freya Stark wrote in the first volume… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia : A Journey in the Hadramaut
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USA: Century Publishing Co London, 1982. Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,& some age toning, otherwise still a good reading copy. Soft Cover. Good. Item Price
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[London]: John Murray, [1936]. xii, 327pp, [1]. With 124 illustrations (from photographs by the author), and two folding maps. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, lower joint starting. Upper hinge exposed, photograph (depicted birds on a shore line) pasted to FEP. The first edition of writer and traveller… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Large octavo. A bit of foxing, boards a bit rubbed, very goods in near very good dust jacket with some chips at front panel and crown, and some internally repaired tears. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadramaut (Traveller's S.)
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E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1936 Illustrated with over 120 photographs. 327pp. "A Journey in the Hadhramaut". Small gift inscription on paste-down endpaper, else, Very Good in dust jacket with edge chip and tears and general rubbing; thus, VG/G.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Item Price
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John Murray, 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover. Green boards, cloth rebacked, spine remounted, original owner's name on fep (that of the 26-year-old Alethea Hayter, writer, then on the staff of Country Life), with very clean pages and illustrations, nice folding map at rear. The author's first book to recount her remarkable journey into the Hadhramaut, into which no previous… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut.
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Los Angeles, CA Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1983. Paperback First Edition Thus (1983), so stated. and First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in 1936. First Edition Thus (1983), so stated. and First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good in Wraps: shows very mild wear to the extremities; a single crease… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia (A Journey in the Hadhramaut)
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London: John Murray. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with no leaning or rolling to spine.There are no previous owner's names or inscriptions present.Clean copy internally with untrimmed page edges.Well illustrated work of this uncommon title with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadramaut : ( Large Print Edition)
by Stark, Freya
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- 1994
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Oxford, United Kingdom: ISIS Large Print Books, 1994. Laminated Hard Boards. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. 346pp. Published in large print. Fresh, clean and tight. Minimal shelf wear with the slightest of bumps to one corner. A near fine copy. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadramaut (Traveller's)
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Pimlico, 1982-09-16. Paperback. Very Good. 2.0305 cent in x 21.0660 cent in x 13.4518 cent in. FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail Item Price
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THE SOUTHERN GATES OF ARABIA; A JOURNEY IN THE HADHRAMAUT
by Stark, Freya
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- 1983
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Columbia, Missouri, USA
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J.P. Tarcher, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Trade paperback. Near fine. J.P. Tarcher, c1983. first printing. 327pp., index. 8vo. Scattered tiny spots lower edge of textblock, shallow crease upper corner tip of front cover, else fine trade paperback. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
by Stark, Freya
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Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: J P Tarcher, 1983, 1983. Soft Cover. Fair. Trade Paperback. Fair/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book shows moderate to heavy wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers scuffed, heavy edge wear/ readers slant/ corners and spine creased/ front spine hinge creased/ previous price on top of front… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadbramaut
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- 1936
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n.p.: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1936. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; green spine with gilt text; first U.S. edition; missing jacket; exterior cloth shows slight rubbing wear to joints; strong boards; modest edge wear; mylar wrap to cloth; text block exterior edges have age toned; deckled fore edge; light tone to endpapers; interior clean; profusely illustrated; pp… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia
by Freya Stark
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- 1983
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1983. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia : A Journey in the Hadramaut
by Stark, Freya
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- 1982
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Century Publishing , 1982. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine (NEAR NEW). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Trade Paperback. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
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Frederick, Maryland, USA
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J. P. Tarcher, Inc.. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. Item Price
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The Southern Gates of Arabia
by Stark, Freya
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- 1978
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London: John Murray, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. pp XI, 327. 10th printing. Some foxing to underside of DJ. Item Price
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