Baghdad -'the most romantic city in the world'
STARK, Freya. Baghdad Sketches. London: John Murray. [1937.]
8vo. Original green cloth, gilt, in original dust-jacket (retaining price); pp. xiv, 269; one sketch map, photographic illustrations, illustrations to text; edges of the cloth a little darkened, wrapper with loss at head and tail of spine, a little offsetting from endpapers; gift inscription, dated 1937, to front fly-leaf; a very good copy of an increasingly rare Freya Stark title.
First edition, incorporating and expanding on Freya Stark's contributions to the Baghdad Times, originally published in Baghdad, a book with 132 pages. With Stark's accompanying and evocative photographs, these sketches provide a window on to a now lost world, called by the publishers "the most romantic city in the world" (blurb on front flap).
Freya Stark's pre-Second World War books are getting seriously rare.
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