Stark (Freya). Traveller's Prelude, 1st edition, presentation copy, London: John Murray, 1950

Stark (Freya). Traveller's Prelude, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1950, inscribed by the author to half-title, double-page map, black & white photographic illustrations, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, original green publisher's cloth, dust jacket, price-clipped, extremities chipped with loss, backstrip toned, rear panel spotted, 8vo, together with:
The Coast of Incense, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1953, inscribed by the author to half-title, black & white photographic illustrations, map, spotting to preliminaries, lightly toned to margins, original green publsiher's cloth, dust jacket, backstrip toned, rear panel spotted, extremities rubbed, 8vo, with
Dust In The Lion's Paw, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1961, inscribed by the author to half-title, black & white photographic illustrations, map, light spotted to preliminaries, original green publisher's cloth, dust jacket, spine toned, 8vo, together with 17 others by Stark (some in dust jackets, four signed)

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From the library of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly. Author of 'To War with Whitaker', she was close friends with Freya Stark. They both shared a house in Baghdad and many of these books are inscribed by Stark to her.

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