Highway Three Kings by Barbara Toy (10 results)

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Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon état sans jaquette rousseurs très claires sur la tranche intérieur frais bonne tenue. in8. 1968. Cartonné. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in good condition with a good dust jacket. 188pp with b/w photographs.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Spine slightly faded, small mark to front otherwise a sound, clean, very good indeed copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published: 1968. 1st Edition / 1st Impression. DESCRIPTION: Pictorial DJ over blue buckram cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners and spine ends with bruised fore edge and lower edge of front board. Sunned upper board edges and thin line to lower spine end. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Minor sticker residue to ffep. DJ shadow to rear free endpaper. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Very Good: Light wear and chipping to upper and lower edges with heavier chipping to corners and spine ends. Clipped. Pages ix, 188. Size: 22cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: Barbara Alex Toy (1908-2001) was an Australian-British travel writer and playwright. In 1950, she made a bet in London which launched her extensive travel career: "Miss Toy bought Pollyanna second-hand in London immediately after some friends had bet her she couldnt go to Baghdad, as she intended, because of the travel and currency restrictions. In The Highway of the three Kings, she travels from Aden through Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a particularly dangerous feat in view of the emergency in Aden and the Yemeni War. After a string of car troubles, she joins a lorry of pilgrims bound for Mecca. The lorry is held up by the desert sands and strays through a minefield, fortunately without calamity. Getting her Land Rover back, she then confronts the prohibition of woman drivers in Saudi Arabia, deciding to bypass Mecca and following the Hijaz Railway. She notes that the railway "has been out of commission since it was wrecked by Lawrence and the Arabs during the First World War. Toy also travelled extensively in Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. She became one of the first women to explore Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1990, at the age of 81, Toy set off on her second world tour. She successfully completed a circumnavigation, and later made a trip across the Alps, retracing the steps of the journey made by Hannibal and his elephants.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Near fine condition in near fine price clipped dust jacket. The book is in excellent condition, clean and tight with no internal markings or inscriptions and just light bumping to the corners. The dust jacket is also remarkably well preserved with light amount of wear and the residue of a price sticker to the bottom of the front flap. Copies with the dust jacket are extremely rare, particularly in this condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published: 1968. 1st Edition / 1st Impression. DESCRIPTION: Pictorial DJ over blue buckram cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned upper and lower board edges. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Minor mark to lower edge of ffep. DJ shadow to rear free endpaper. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Good: Wear and chipping to upper and lower edges. Heavier wear to upper spine ends and edges. Lightly sunned spine. Clipped. Pages ix, 188. Size: 22cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: Barbara Alex Toy (1908-2001) was an Australian-British travel writer and playwright. In 1950, she made a bet in London which launched her extensive travel career: "Miss Toy bought Pollyanna second-hand in London immediately after some friends had bet her she couldnt go to Baghdad, as she intended, because of the travel and currency restrictions. In The Highway of the three Kings, she travels from Aden through Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a particularly dangerous feat in view of the emergency in Aden and the Yemeni War. After a string of car troubles, she joins a lorry of pilgrims bound for Mecca. The lorry is held up by the desert sands and strays through a minefield, fortunately without calamity. Getting her Land Rover back, she then confronts the prohibition of woman drivers in Saudi Arabia, deciding to bypass Mecca and following the Hijaz Railway. She notes that the railway "has been out of commission since it was wrecked by Lawrence and the Arabs during the First World War. Toy also travelled extensively in Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. She became one of the first women to explore Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1990, at the age of 81, Toy set off on her second world tour. She successfully completed a circumnavigation, and later made a trip across the Alps, retracing the steps of the journey made by Hannibal and his elephants.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published: 1968. 1st Edition / 1st Impression. DESCRIPTION: Pictorial DJ over blue buckram cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned upper board edges. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Minor mark to lower edge of ffep. DJ shadow to rear free endpaper. Clean unmarked pages. Some spotting to text block fore edge seeping on to extreme margins of a few pages. DJ Condition: Very Good: Very light wear and chipping to upper and lower edges. Clipped. Pages ix, 188. Size: 22cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: Barbara Alex Toy (1908-2001) was an Australian-British travel writer and playwright. In 1950, she made a bet in London which launched her extensive travel career: "Miss Toy bought Pollyanna second-hand in London immediately after some friends had bet her she couldnt go to Baghdad, as she intended, because of the travel and currency restrictions. In The Highway of the three Kings, she travels from Aden through Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a particularly dangerous feat in view of the emergency in Aden and the Yemeni War. After a string of car troubles, she joins a lorry of pilgrims bound for Mecca. The lorry is held up by the desert sands and strays through a minefield, fortunately without calamity. Getting her Land Rover back, she then confronts the prohibition of woman drivers in Saudi Arabia, deciding to bypass Mecca and following the Hijaz Railway. She notes that the railway "has been out of commission since it was wrecked by Lawrence and the Arabs during the First World War. Toy also travelled extensively in Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. She became one of the first women to explore Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1990, at the age of 81, Toy set off on her second world tour. She successfully completed a circumnavigation, and later made a trip across the Alps, retracing the steps of the journey made by Hannibal and his elephants.

4to. IX, (3), 188 pp. With 24 black-and-white photographic prints and 2 sketch maps of the route (one double page). Original blue full cloth with white stamped spine-title. Original illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated account of exploration along the Incense Route in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, written by "probably the first woman to have made the journey" (blurb). A gift copy with an 1969 inscription to flyleaf: "To Fred with love & best wishes for many happy returns of your birthday from Mina". - The seventh book in Toy's famous travel series involving her Landrover Pollyanna - or 'the desert gazelle', as it came to be called - narrating how her plan to follow the Incense Route was fraught with a disabling combination of immense danger - crossing war-torn Yemen - and burdensome bureaucracy. Her first attempt to cross the Saudi Arabian border was foiled, but she was able to join a pilgrimage caravan and became a valued member of the group due to her first aid box. - Toy's fascinating travelogue describes the sights and sounds along the route, includes anecdotes of Bedouin fables, and compares the rapidly developing country with memories of her previous travels in the Middle East. It includes an account of the Hejaz railway, some sections of which Toy followed on her trip, as well as the railroad's history and the various attempts to re-establish it after the destruction caused by T. E. Lawrence and his men. - Dust jacket unclipped, slightly worn at extremities. Block edges slightly spotted. A fine copy of this important piece of travel literature by one of the first Westerners to visit Saudi Arabia. - OCLC 778317775.

First edition, first impression. In this fascinating narrative, Toy outlines her journey tracing the incense route from Bir Ali to Damascus. She made the trip in her trusted Land Rover Pollyanna and by joining a pilgrimage caravan. Copies are uncommon in the dust jacket. Barbara Alex Toy (1908-2001) was an Australian-British travel writer and playwright famed for her dramatization of Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage - the first Miss Marple stage play. In 1950, she made a bet in London which launched an extensive travel career: "Miss Toy bought Pollyanna second-hand in London immediately after some friends had bet her she couldn't go to Baghdad, as she intended, because of thigh travel and currency restrictions. She accepted and won the bet by driving to Baghdad" (Australian Women's Weekly, p. 29). In The Highway of the three Kings, she travels from Aden through Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a particularly dangerous feat in view of the emergency in Aden and the Yemeni War. After a string of car troubles, she joins a lorry of pilgrims bound for Mecca. The lorry is held up by the desert sands and strays through a minefield, fortunately without calamity. Getting her Land Rover back, she then confronts the prohibition of woman drivers in Saudi Arabia, deciding to bypass Mecca and following the Hijaz Railway. She notes that the railway "has been out of commission since it was wrecked by Lawrence and the Arabs during the First World War. There is a strange mystique about railways and the various schemes put forth for their construction across the most remote and unlikely regions of the earth" (p. 134). Toy also travelled extensively in Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. She became one of the first women to explore Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1990, at the age of 81, Toy set off on her second world tour. She successfully completed a circumnavigation, and later made a trip across the Alps, retracing the steps of the journey made by Hannibal and his elephants. "A 'toy' on wheels", Australian Women's Weekly, 15 May 1957. Octavo. With 8 plates, and double-page map of Arabia. Original light blue buckram, spine lettered in white. With pictorial dust jacket. A few light marks to cloth; price-clipped jacket, bubbling of the laminate, edges rubbed: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.