ID: 2510
Seen in the Hadhramaut.
STARK, Freya
Category: Travel
Place/Publisher/Date:
London, John Murray. 1938.
Description:
First edition, one of the 25 signed copies specially bound with a portrait of the author; 4to; original half cloth, glassine dust jacket with paper flaps, top edge gilt. Map of Hadhramaut by Hawes and 130 black and white photographs. "Beautiful photographs and interesting text on the seldom-visited south coast of Arabia, which until recently was completely unspoiled by the intrusion of a discordant culture or of power politics." (a contemporary review). Very good, occasional spotting, slight wear to the extremities. The fragile dust jacket has a number of tears.
Price £2750.00
