Stark (Freya) Baghdad Sketches
£575
London, John Murray, 1937.
First UK edition, second enlarged edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s 5d.
Scarce in the dust-jacket. This ‘second edition’ builds considerably upon the Baghdad edition of 1932, including the addition of ten sketches.
In stock
Book itself very good; jacket slightly sunned at spine with some loss to head, a few minor closed tears and chipping to fore-corners, but still a very good copy.
Photographic plates, double-page map.
Bibliophile Tony Estill’s copy.
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