Search Results: seen in the hadhramaut by freya stark

John Murray, 1938. 1st edn. Tall 8vo (10 x 7¼ ins). Original green lettered oatmeal cloth (bright VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xxiii + 199, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions).

London: John Murray, 1938. Hardcover; 4to; 199 pages. No jacket. Beige cloth hardcovers with teal titles. Gently sunned spine. Lightly bumped corners. Off-white but bright and clean interior. Many full-page gravure plates throughout. VG+/--. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket.

JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, 1938 HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS + MAP, NO JACKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 10 X 8 INCHES WITH 23 + 199 PAGES. SOME LIGHT GENERAL WEAR TO COVER WITH A COUPLE OF MINOR BUMPS TO EDGES & CORNERS, BUT OVERALL AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH NO SERIOUS FAULTS. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: John Murray, 1938 8vo. original light bue cloth (a little rubbed & nicked, spine and exposed edges sunned, prev. owner's name (E.C.Fraser) to FFE, small staining and offsetting to endpapers, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xxiv (last blank), 200 (last colophon), with 130 plates. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket.

London, UK: John Murray, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xxiv, 200pp. Beige cloth-covered boards, green titles on front and spine. Bumped spine ends. Lightly bumped corners. Light soiling where there is jacket loss. Top text block edge dusty. Small pink pen date written in top corner of free paste down. Light foxing to prelim pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has significant loss, many tears and internal repairs. Dust jacket will be protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the jacket or book in any way post-photographing. 8vo. The explorer and travel writer's photographic account of her travels in 1935 through the Hadhramaut on the Arabian Peninsula where only a handful of Western explorers had previously ventured

London: John Murray, 1938. Hardcover; 4to; 199 pages. No jacket. Beige cloth hardcovers with teal titles. Sunned and spotted. Lightly bumped corners. Prev. owner's name in pen on fep. Off-white but bright and clean interior. Small sharpie marking on fore-edge. VG-/--. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket.

1938. John Murray, London. 1938. First Edition. Large 8vo. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with black and white plates. Boards are slightly bowed, partially faded and a little soiled. Bookplate to front endpaper, the endpapers are slightly browned o/w contents clean and sound. Wrapper is price clipped and lacks portions from head and tail of spine (affecting text) and top corner of front panel, extremities are worn with some small closed tears to margins.

London: John Murray, 1938. 1st edition. Very Good. large octavo. hardback in original cloth 199pp., b/w pls., maps, Stamps & labels of Reference library o/w nice tight, clean copy

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Quarto. 199pp. Illustrated from photographs. Gray cloth gilt. Modest wear on the spine ends. Contemporary owner's name, modest wear at the extremities, very good or better in modestly worn, very good or better price-clipped dustwrapper with internal tape repair. Scarce in jacket.

London, John Murray, 1938. 1st Edition. 189 pages. Near fine half leather with marbled boards. Internally fine with numerous black and white ills by the author. Loosely inserted the original dust jacket.

John Murray, [1938]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, Blue Issue, title in red and black, with numerous fine photographs (tinted in sepia) by the author throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, near contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Virtually 'near fine' copy of the author's fourth book. This copy is an unspecified later issue of the first edition, bound in blue rather than oatmeal cloth. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

London: John Murray.. Very Good. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in the 'first issue' oatmeal-colored boards with green lettering in a price-clipped very good+ dust jacket. (Crest of spine on jacket chipped as are upper lefthand corner of rear panel, a few slender chips along the upper edge. Touch of soiling at upper edge of front panel. ) Author's FOURTH book with 130 images taken by her. ; 7 1/2" x 10"; 199 pages .

XXIII, [1 blank], 199, [1 blank] pp.A view of the Hadhramaut in Southern Arabia and its people through the eyes and camera lens of traveller, writer, and photographer Freya Stark (1893-1993). Stark was of Italian and British descent, she was born in Paris and grew up in several places throughout Europe. As a young girl she was in an accident where her hair got stuck in heavy machinery and in the rescue process a part of her scalp and her right ear tore off. This first edition of Seen in the Hadhramaut tells the story of this region in Southern Arabia in 130 photographs with corresponding descriptions.Dust jacket is slightly soiled and very slightly damaged (mostly around head and foot of spine), binding and edges with some slight discolouration and foxing, endleaves partially browned.l Blackmer 1470; Howgego IV, S61; Smith, The Yemens, 98; Sotheby's the library of Robert Michael Burrell, 889. cf. "Freya Stark". Encyclopaedia Britannica; (other ed. 1939) Macro 2118; Shapero, The Islamic World (2003), 468.