![]() Twelve black and white plates after sketches by E.N.Prescott. A very good copy indeed, with just a little fading to the spine and trivial wear to the spine label, but an uncommonly well preserved copy of the author's scarce first book. ![]() ![]() Author's presentation copy, inscribed by Stark to Elsie and Harry Sinderson on the front free endpaper "Elsie & Sinbad, most affectionately, Freya Stark". Original red cloth with printed paper labels to the spine and upper cover. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "FOR SETON AND HYDIE, FROM FREYA".įirst edition. Stark's book constitutes a series of sketches intended "to give a picture of daily life" in the city where she had moved to in 1929. Freya Stark made a great impression on the up-and-coming Lloyd who eventually found his niche in Baghdad, being appointed Archaeological Advisor to the Directorate of Antiquities in Iraq in 1939 and helped to establish the Iraq Museum. ![]() Presentation copy inscribed to archaeologist Seton Lloyd and his sculptor and artist wife Margery Fitzwilliams-Hyde on the ffep with a contemporary photograph of the author in Arabic dress. Covers have soiling and spotting, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, spine cocked, spine label sunned with a chipped corner, pencil notes and erasures on front endpapers, toning to endpapers and first/last few pages, front inner hinge cracked, frontis loose, three plates detached else good. Prescott, 8.5 x 5.5", red cloth, paper labels on cover and spine. ![]()
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