THE COAST OF INCENSE: autobiography 1933-1939. by STARK, Freya - 1953

London: John Murray. 1953. First printing. Hardcover. First issue binding of green cloth gilt lettered. pp (xvi), (287) + map on green card stock and 11 double-sided photo plates inserted. Index. Green wood-engraved vignette to title page and small tail piece ornament by Reynolds Stone. Yellowing to page edges, vertical creases to fore margin of front free endpaper, narrow bands of sunning to spine ends and lower margin of front cover, else fine. Price-clipped dust just jacket has a large chip to foot spine and lower inner corner of front panel, smaller chip across head of spine, rear panel yellowed and a little soiled, crease to front flap, fair, but now in plastic and looking better. Third volume of the author's autobiography. "These middle years include the adventure of travel; Egypt, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, her introduction to South Arabia, two journeys to the Valley of the Hadhramaut, the quest of Shabwa and the all but fatal illness in the isolation of the Shibam."; Octavo .