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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cover toned around edges, pages toned, spine toned, bumps and shelf wear. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition - with small black and white woodcuts by Reynolds Stone and a black and white frontispiece illustration self-portrait by the author. ***Very good in forest green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt facsimile author's signature to the front board. Boards clean - only lightly marked. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. Long vertical creases to edges of last two pages. Please note there is also a closed tear to the centre of the title page. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 25s net. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly creased and rubbed. A little of the glossy outer laminate layer of the dustwrapper has lifted at the edges. Tiny closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***210mm x 134mm. 230 pages including a two-page list of sources at the back of the book. ***'"Freya Stark unites in one mind the traveller, the historian, the philosopher and the poet: she sees life clearly yet with passion and depth as well as wholeness." So wrote the Times Literary Supplement of one of her books. This applies fully to "The Zodiac Arch", a galaxy of her shorter writings whose titles alone are an enticement: In Defence of Smuggling, Tidiness, The Bull-Fight, The Foreign Office 'H', Decadence, The Old-fashioned Spinster, Passing Fashions, Lunch with Homer and many others. There are several of her sensitive and practical comments on the writer's craft such as Saying What One Means and A Note on Style, and, as might be expected, many on that subject of which sh is the accepted authority and stylist - travel - both its philosophy and its factual pleasures. So, amongst others, we have On Travelling with a Notebook, My Worst Journey, Travel for Solitude. Linking the chapters is a commentary written with Freya Stark's extraordinary powers of evocation which are also expressed for the first time in three fictional sketches. ***To complete a book of striking individuality there is an account of that most exciting and ancient of human occupations, building oneself a house, this time on a hilltop in Italy, which is her most recent feat and a symbol, in a way, of the eminence she has achieved through her books and her mastery of words. ***None of the material collected here has appeared in any of her previous books, and it spans, in chronological sequence, the lifetime of one of the most distinguished travellers and writers of our day.' (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition in its original bright unfaded dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors and readers of Freya Stark. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition - recommended by the Book Society. With attractive black and white chapter-head wood-engravings and dark red wood-engraving vignette to the title-page by Reynolds Stone. With a two-page foreword by the author. ***Very good in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, and gilt facsimile signature of the author to the front board. The boards are clean, but with some light shadowing from the titles and design of the dustwrapper to the spine and front board. Edges of boards faded. No creases or bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean, just slightly darkened to the top edge. Internally also very good, with a neat period gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: " 'Vera, Hoping this will open a "charmed magic casement for you" with love, Joan". Very small contemporaneous gilt printed bookseller's label to the bottom of the front paste-down 'Books & Careers 84 Victoria Street, London SW1'. Interior pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a good but incomplete green printed price-clipped dustwrapper, which has large chips and associated tears and creases to the edges. Large chips to the head and tail of the spine, and edges. Large chip also to lower portion of the spine. Very slight fading to the spine colour. (please see scans) ***x prelim-pages plus 169 text-pages. 204mm x 138mm. ***'Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 Jan 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.' (Wiki) ***'Freya Stark has become one of the few outstanding travel writers of our time. By her vivid accounts of travel in Persia, Arabia and the Near East her many readers have themselves become travellers-at-heart. Her new book is a more personal and a more individual kind of book. It deals with a different kind of journey - one for which her experiences may in some measure equip her as a guide - and one which we are all travellers.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, in its original fragile dustwrapper (defective) with attractive wood-engraving chapter-heads by Reynolds Stone. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition. With a three-page foreword and nine-page "Synopsis of History (may be omitted by the well-informed)" by Freya Stark to the fore. Attractive green engraved vignette by Reynolds Stone to the title-page. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs by Freya Stark. Double-page black and red sketch-map by E. G. Morton. ***Very good in blue-green textured cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and front board. Boards quite clean with some marks commensurate with age and handling and some browning to the spine. Please note, there is an old surface water-stain to the bottom corner of the front board, not affecting the interior pages (please see scans). No creases or bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean, with the top edge stained blue-green by the publisher to match the boards (now faded). Internally also very good with light offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. Attractive, contemporaneous black and white astrological "Scorpio" wood-cut illustrated Ex-Libris bookplate to front board: 'Ex-Libris Scorpio John O'Connor - Carpe Diem'. No other inscriptions or annotations. Interior pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. All plates present. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Spine faded. Old surface water-stain to bottom corner of front board not affecting interior pages. No dustwrapper. xxiv prelim-pages plus 263 text-pages including References and Index at the back of the book. 204mm x 156mm. ***Contents: Foreword; Synopsis of History; Dates; Chapters: 1. Dawn in Ionia; 2. Smyrna (The Family in the Levant); 3. Clazeomenae (The Philosophic Weather); 4. Teos. Anacreon and the Poetry of Living; 5. Erythrae (Exile and Slavery); 6. Chios (Ingredients of Empire); 7. Myrina (New Harvests Cover the Land); 8. Gryneium (Solitude and Patrotism); 9. Pitane (Toleration and Truth); 10. Pergamum (The Raiders of the Border); 11. Cyme (The Phrygian Mood; 12. Phocaea. (Decision). ***'Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 Jan 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.' (Wiki) ***'The book describes Freya Stark's travels in 1952 to fifty-five ancient ruined and deserted classical sites in Western Turkey. Dedicated to Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West. ***First printing of the true first edition, profusely illustrated, and with an attractive contemporaneous Ex-Libris bookplate. We also have a first edition of "THE LYCIAN SHORE" listed, with the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Wood-cut title-page vignette engraving by Reynolds Stone (illustrator). …

Original publisher's green paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: 110pp., [ij], vignettes, table of contents. Price clipped. Fine copy..

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG-. First Thus. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & creased, slight fray at tail cap, a little marking and toning); pp. [viii (last blank)], 200, with line drawings + a map. A good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG. First Thus. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, spine sunned, trifling spots & marks); pp. vi, 170, with decorations by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).

Softcover. Zustand: Good. 169 p. [THE CENTURY TRAVELLERS]. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (endpapers tanned, corners slightly bumped, leaf edges a little speckled) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly sunned, localised lifting of laminate); pp. viii, 230, with frontispiece portrait & wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). …

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG. Reprint. 8vo. original prinmted paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, slightly marked, prev. owner's details to first page, one crossed out); pp. x, 170 (last blank), with decorations by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - His family left him four dragon eggs, a mountain, and no instructions. Time to figure it out. Soren Stormchaser is a dragonless C-rank Skybreaker, leading a party of eight while secretly building a sanctuary on the inherited mountain. Every gilder from the job board goes to lumber, locks, and keeping four dragon eggs alive. Faye, his sharp-shooting ranch-girl girlfriend, builds coops and commits petty felonies with equal enthusiasm. Nova, his arena-star girlfriend and the highest-ranked fighter in Crimson Wing, keeps them funded, organized, and sane. But the sanctuary bleeds money faster than Crimson Wing can earn it. When Nova risks a weekend with her estranged sapphire-mining family to secure a loan, the visit cracks open old wounds and threatens to expose every secret they've fought to protect. Dragon-riding action meets slow-burn romance and a found family forged under real pressure. Dragon ridersFound familyProgression fantasyGuild adventuring partySlow-burn romanceDragon bondingSecret sanctuary>Series: Dragon Bound, Book 2 - OngoingTone: Action-packed with humor, emotional depth, and slow-burn romancePOV: First person>Perfect for fans of How to Train Your Dragon and High School DxD. Continue Soren's story today.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original green buckram gilt (cloth a little rubbed & flecked, spine slightly faded with a few marks, prev. owner's label to FFE, some offsetting to a couple of leaves, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xiv (last blank), 346, with 24 illustrations, a map & wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. [Neate S156: A promising Alpine career as a young woman was curtailed by illness and frailty, but she went on to become a noted explorer of the Middle East. Her biggest climb was Monte Rosa from the Marinelli Hut. Interesting references to contemporary climbers, particularly W.P.Ker]. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG-. Second Printing. VG/VG-. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (spotting to leaf edges & endpapers, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges rubbed and frayed with slight loss, tape repairs on reverse); pp. x, 170, with numerous illustrations & a sketch map. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Zustand: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original brown boards (leaf edge spotting, endpapers a trifle offset, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed); pp. xi, 204, with numerous illustrations by the author and title-page wood engraved decoration by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original green buckram gilt (short inscrip. to FFE, endpapers a trifle offset, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slightly rubbed with a few short closed tears, slight marks to rear panel); pp. xvi (last blank), 288 (last blank), with 51 illustrations, a sketch map and wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A near fine copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, backstrip and exposed boards a little sunned) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked); pp. xii (last blank), 114, with numerous illustrations by the author and title-page wood engraved decoration by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. First Edition. VG+/G. 8vo. original green buckram gilt (a trifle rubbed & sunned) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, frayed with chipping at spine ends & corners, splitting to foldovers, tape repair); pp. xiv (last blank), 346, with 24 illustrations, a map & wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy in a worn dustwrapper. [Neate S156: A promising Alpine career as a young woman was curtailed by illness and frailty, but she went on to become a noted explorer of the Middle East. Her biggest climb was Monte Rosa from the Marinelli Hut. Interesting references to contemporary climbers, particularly W.P.Ker]. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. F-. First Edition. F/F-. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (cloth to spine a trifle sunned) in dustwrapper (price-clipped with publisher's reprice label, edges slightly rubbed); pp. xii (last blank), 114, with numerous illustrations by the author and title-page wood engraved decoration by Reynolds Stone. A near fine copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: G+. First Edition. VG+/G+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (ia trifle sunned, top edge slightly dustmarked, very occasional spot, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (frayed and chipped with some loss, repaired on reverse); pp. x, 170, with numerous illustrations & a sketch map. A very good copy in a worn dustwrapper. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (cloth sunned, a few spots, inscrip. to FFE) in dustwrapper (edges rubbed and slightly frayed); pp. xxiv (last blank), 284 (last blank), with 76 illustrations, text drawings by the author, 5 maps (1 colour folding) and title-page wood engraved decoration by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. Reynolds Stone (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. The first edition of this autobiographical work by Freya Stark, recounting of her travels in South Arabia between 1933-39. First edition. Illustrated with forty plates containing a series of photographs taken by the author herself as well as a map printed on green paper, with numerous wood engravings in text. Collated complete. The third and last part of Freya Stark's autobiography, which mainly focusses on her travels around South Arabia between 1933 and 1939, a very personal account drawn upon her own experiences. She was known to be one of the first non-Arabian to travel through the Southern Arabian desert in modern times. Written by Dame Freya Madeline Stark, a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. Illustrated by the author and Alan Reynolds Stone, an English wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot predominantly to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Freya Stark; Reynolds Stone (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. The smart first edition of Stark"s Arabian memoirs, charting her desert travels along the fabled frankincense coast in the years before war, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.First edition.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a series of photographs taken by the author herself as well as a map printed on green paper, with forty full page plates and numerous wood engravings by Reynolds Stone in text. Collated, complete.The third and final volume of Freya Stark"s autobiography, recounting her journeys in southern Arabia during the 1930s, particularly in the Hadhramaut and along the frankincense coast.Freya Stark (1893-1993) was one of the twentieth century"s most celebrated travel writers, known for her expeditions in the Middle East and her fluent Arabic. She was known to be one of the first non-Arabian to travel through the Southern Arabian desert in modern times. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, very smart. Very slight shelf wear to extremities with minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper, smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in the odd small chip and closed tear. Slight sunning and discolouration to wraps. The odd spot of damp staining to upper portion of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. Freya Stark; Reynolds Stone (illustrator). book.…