Beyond Euphrates by Freya Stark, First Edition (45 results)

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 341 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 341 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout, notable to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Ring mark to front board. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. xiv, 342pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt signature on front, gilt titles on spine. Sun-faded spine, bumped ends. Top text block edge dusty, outer edge untrimmed. Prelim pages foxing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket is poor; in two parts, significant loss, chipping, price unclipped. 8vo. Highly acclaimed autobiography by one of the great travel writers, covering the period of her early journeys.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. xiii, 341 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, with index. Light wear and pale spotting to boards; internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Second volume of Stark's autobiography, told through her self-edited correspondence including letters from her first journey, Canada, to Baghdad, into Persia, the Persian Summer, Journalism in Baghdad, and the last of Baghdad from 1928-1933.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hbk, 341p., b/w photo illustrations, double page map. Some bumping to head, tail of spine and corners o/w a clean unmarked copy in good condition.[Women travellers - Middle East - Autobiography] p985 / m8523.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 4 paperbacks in uniform style held in illustrated card slipcase. All books have inscription inside front cover otherwise "Coast" and "Dust" appear unread with slight shelf wear, the other 2 volumes have creased spines and rubbed corners, "Prelude" has a scuff to rear cover slipcase clean and bright but top and bottom seams sprung. 1.9Kg Outside UK will need extra postage.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Previous owner name to prelims.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 341 pages inc 9 page index, map before contents of the Arabian Kurdistan regions, 55 photo illustrations, green cloth, with ghost of an old "Boots" library shield shaped label on top board and with the titles and spine dull and rubbed, with eye-hole at top of the spine? Contents very good, octavo.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First thus. A one volume condensation of 3 books originally published separately in England: "Traveller's Prelude," "Beyond Euphrates" and "The Coast of Incense." Autobiographical works by one of the great women travelers of the twentieth century, especially known for her exploration of the Arab world. Includes 16 pages of photographs, index. 374 pp. Very good in green cloth with silver lettering on spine in a good only dust jacket with some tape repairs, small chips and rubbing (somewhat musty, previous owner's name stamped on rear endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, very good, lacks dust jacket, Autobiography 1928 - 1933.

First Edition. Good copy in the original standard 'Boots' cloth binding. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; The first journey, 1928 -- Canada, 1928-29 -- To Baghdad, 1929 -- Into Persia, 1929-30 -- The Persian summer, 1931 -- Journalism in Baghdad, 1932 -- The last of Baghdad, 1933. Subjects; Stark, Freya. Stark, Freya 1893-1993 Travel Middle East. Travel. Women travelers ; Biography. Orientalists ; Biography. Baghdad (Iraq) Description and travel. Iran Description and travel. Iran. Iraq Baghdad. 3 Kg.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. NEAR-FINE BOOK IN VERY GOOD-, PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET WITH CLOSED SPINE TEARS AND MINOR WEAR ELSEWHERE.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. xiii, 341 pp., b/w photographic plates, 1 map, index, cover stained at lower margins, small stain to lower margin of last 30 leaves, not affecting text, otherwise copy in good condition. #708.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. *** BOOK in very good clean tight and unmarked condition. Green boards with gilt title on spine and gilt facsimile signature on upper board. Top edge green, other edges untrimmed. 341 pages including index, map and 40 pages of b&w illustations, chapter endpiece woodcuts by Stone. Dust jacket in fair condition; it is now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS; This selection covers the author's travels to Persia and Iraq with an interlude in Canada. Size: 225x150mm.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The boards have slight rubbing to the corners, a little fading to the spine and there is a spine lean. Browning to the page edges and the endpapers. There is a small Blackwells label at the bottom of the front pastedown and the pages are a little browned but are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good tight copy, spine slightly faded, small marks, light age spotting.

First Edition. Good copy in the original standard 'Boots' cloth binding. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; The first journey, 1928 -- Canada, 1928-29 -- To Baghdad, 1929 -- Into Persia, 1929-30 -- The Persian summer, 1931 -- Journalism in Baghdad, 1932 -- The last of Baghdad, 1933. Subjects; Stark, Freya. Stark, Freya 1893-1993 Travel Middle East. Travel. Women travelers ; Biography. Orientalists ; Biography. Baghdad (Iraq) Description and travel. Iran Description and travel. Iran. Iraq Baghdad. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Hardback, no d/j. Blue boards have a faded and bumped spine, light bumping to corners, o/w good. Autobiography 1928-1933.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1951 first edition, first impression. Size octavo, 341 pages. Green cloth covered boards with gilt facsimile signature to the front cover and gilt titles to the spine. Condition good, covers a bit grubby and slightly uneven tone to the colour, corners rubbed and bumped, spine a little sunned, offsetting to end-papers, pages are toned otherwise clean. From the Library of Nicholas Ambraseys. Nicholas Neocles Ambraseys FICE FREng 1929-2012 was a Greek engineering seismologist. He was emeritus professor of Engineering Seismology and Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. For many years Ambraseys was considered as the leading figure and absolute authority in earthquake engineering and seismology in Europe. Signed "N. N. Ambraseys" to the upper outer corner of the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher - John Murray, London, 1951. 1st ed. Good condition, green boards with gilt lettering to front board and sunned spine. Forward lean, stain to front board. Pages rough cut except top edges. Top corner of ffep torn off. Tanning to next blank page. B/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher - John Murray, London, 1951. 1st ed. Good condition, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, pages rough cut except upper edges. Front endpaper hinge mended with tape, previous owner's name to ffep, labels apparently removed from rear pastedown. Many b/w plates, 341pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Without Dust Jacket. First Edition. Former owner name on front endpaper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair DJ. First edition. DJ has multiple tears, bottom parts partly held together by tape.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. Pp. 341. In original green boards, gilt title to the spine. The original jacket is not price clipped, it has loss to the spine and top corners of the front panel, nicks to top edge. Internally clean pages, tight binding. Small name to front end page.

EA, 341 S., OLwd. m. OU., gut erhalten Sprache: Englisch. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition copy of the second work in Freya Stark's illustrated autobiographical travel quartet. The first edition of the work.In the publisher's original green cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with numerous illustrations over 22 plates, and a map. Collated, complete.A work by Freya Stark, a British-Italian explorer andtravel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in theMiddle EastandAfghanistanas well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southernArabian Desertin modern times.This volume is the second work of her autobiographical quartet, and documents the start of her Eastern travels in 1928 through 1933, undetered by an illness which threatened her life.Through letters and snatches of her diary, she describes Baghdad, life in a harem in Damascus, journeys in Persia and a treasure hunt in Luristan. In addition, she visited England and Canada, all the while maintaining her residence in Italy. In publisher's original green cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is generally smart, with loss to top and bottom edge, with chipping and closed tears to top edge, and light sunning to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st edition. 1st printing, in green cloth with gilt; B&W illustrations. Some foxing; damp-stain at edges of front pastedown; a little loss of colour to cloth on boards & spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but chipped & worn, with tears Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

Tela editorial. Condition: Algún defecto. 1ª ed. 16x23. xii+346pp. y xiii+342pp. . Ilustraciones en negro. Tela editorial. En inglés. Algo de óxido en las páginas de la introducción. Por lo demás, buen ejemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in smart green cloth, with bright gilt title letering to front board and spine, this 1951 First Edition is VG. X111/341pp with double page Map, Seven Chapters, 52 Photographs and sketch map by H. W. Hawes. Wood engraved end-pieces by Reynolds Stone .Clean endpapers, tight binding and all VG.