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Stark, Freya.
The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels.
Publisher: John Murray, London;
Date of Publication: 1934
Stock Code: 14169
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 363. With portrait frontispiece, 30 plates and 6 maps, as called for. Publisher’s sea-green buckram, titles stamped to spine and upper board, pictorial map end-papers. Top edge stained green, others uncut. In the rare unclipped sea-green dust-jacket. The slightest of shelf-wear to extremities of boards. Very minor chips to head and tail of dust-jacket spine, and lower panel evenly toned. Contents clean and rather bright. An excellent copy of a book that is now increasingly difficult to find in the original 1934 dust-jacket. Stark’s second book, recounting her travels in ‘unknown Persia’, furnished with photographs taken by the author. A remarkable account ‘known for its elegant prose, lively wit, and observations of people’ (ODNB). £3000.00