THE COAST OF INCENSE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1933-1939
by Stark, Freya
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray. bound in clean green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine, this dated 1953 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjackiet(unclipped). X111/187pp with 5 Chapters as follows: Journey South, 1933-35; Iraq Revisited, 1935-37, Winter in Huraidha, 1937-1937, Greece & Syria, 1938-39, The War, 1939 and Index. With 51 B/W Photos and Sketch Map by H.W. Hawes, also several line drawings set in text. Signature of late owner to FFEP. Icm closed tear to top of jacket's front panel, and 3 small chips to top of jacket's spine: Jacket is 99.9% complete.otherwise VG/VG . Very Good. Hardcover.. First Edition. 1953.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00212300
- Title
- THE COAST OF INCENSE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1933-1939
- Author
- Stark, Freya
- Illustrator
- Stone, Reynolds
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Freya Stark: The Coast of Incense. Autobiography, 1933-39. 1st Edition VG/VG
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- Cloth
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- VG
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...