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Stark, Freya.
Baghdad Sketches. in the scarce unclipped pictorial jacket
Publisher: John Murray, London;
Date of Publication: 1937
Stock Code: 14168
First British Edition. Octavo pp., 269. Illustrated throughout with numerous photographs by the author and drawings by E. N. Prescott, sketch map by H. W. Hawes. Publisher’s green buckram, titles gilt to spine. Neat gift inscription to front free endpaper. In the scarce unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Jacket with some loss to extremities. Contents evenly toned, but clean. A near-fine copy in good jacket. The first book by one of the greatest travellers of the century. Stark moved to Baghdad in 1929, journeying to Lurestan and Mazandran, while making observations for the British War Office. In 1933 Stark returned to London to receive accolades as a female traveller. She was awarded the Back grant from the Royal Geographical Society and was the first woman to receive the Burton medal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Originally published in Baghdad in 1932 this first British edition was expanded by Stark by more than 100 pages. A book not scarce in the original 1937 dust-jacket. £480.00