Stone Freya (39 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cover toned around edges, pages toned, spine toned, bumps and shelf wear.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing hardback. 112 pp. Illustrated Page edges tanned otherwise Very Good condition in Very Good price-lipped dust jacket . No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reynolds Stone (engravings) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean and unmarked. Price-clipped DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reynolds Stone. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition. Woodcuts by Reynolds Stone and a self-portrait by the author. 230pp. Pages are lightly brown. Jacket design by Korin Keefe. The jacket is slightly scuffed and nicked also price clipped. Slight wear o/w in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition - with small black and white woodcuts by Reynolds Stone and a black and white frontispiece illustration self-portrait by the author. ***Very good in forest green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and gilt facsimile author's signature to the front board. Boards clean - only lightly marked. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. Long vertical creases to edges of last two pages. Please note there is also a closed tear to the centre of the title page. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 25s net. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly creased and rubbed. A little of the glossy outer laminate layer of the dustwrapper has lifted at the edges. Tiny closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***210mm x 134mm. 230 pages including a two-page list of sources at the back of the book. ***'"Freya Stark unites in one mind the traveller, the historian, the philosopher and the poet: she sees life clearly yet with passion and depth as well as wholeness." So wrote the Times Literary Supplement of one of her books. This applies fully to "The Zodiac Arch", a galaxy of her shorter writings whose titles alone are an enticement: In Defence of Smuggling, Tidiness, The Bull-Fight, The Foreign Office 'H', Decadence, The Old-fashioned Spinster, Passing Fashions, Lunch with Homer and many others. There are several of her sensitive and practical comments on the writer's craft such as Saying What One Means and A Note on Style, and, as might be expected, many on that subject of which sh is the accepted authority and stylist - travel - both its philosophy and its factual pleasures. So, amongst others, we have On Travelling with a Notebook, My Worst Journey, Travel for Solitude. Linking the chapters is a commentary written with Freya Stark's extraordinary powers of evocation which are also expressed for the first time in three fictional sketches. ***To complete a book of striking individuality there is an account of that most exciting and ancient of human occupations, building oneself a house, this time on a hilltop in Italy, which is her most recent feat and a symbol, in a way, of the eminence she has achieved through her books and her mastery of words. ***None of the material collected here has appeared in any of her previous books, and it spans, in chronological sequence, the lifetime of one of the most distinguished travellers and writers of our day.' (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition in its original bright unfaded dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors and readers of Freya Stark. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reynolds Stone [wood engravings] ; Sketch Map by H. W. Hawes (illustrator). First Edition. BEYOND EUPHRATES takes up the tale at the start of her Eastern travels in 1928 through 1933, undetered by an illness which threatened her life. Through letters and snatches of her diary, she describes Baghdad, life in a harem in Damascus, journeys in Persia and a treasure hunt in Luristan. In addition, she visited England and Canada, all the while maintaining her residence in Italy. xIii, 341p. numerous photo illustrations including some wood engravings by Reynolds Stone., map. 23 cm. Book is bright, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Cloth shows virtually no wear, corners are sharp. . The price-clipped dustjacket has some minor top-edge wear closed with acid-free tape on underside, but is otherwise very bright and clean. Weight, 668g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition - recommended by the Book Society. With attractive black and white chapter-head wood-engravings and dark red wood-engraving vignette to the title-page by Reynolds Stone. With a two-page foreword by the author. ***Very good in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, and gilt facsimile signature of the author to the front board. The boards are clean, but with some light shadowing from the titles and design of the dustwrapper to the spine and front board. Edges of boards faded. No creases or bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean, just slightly darkened to the top edge. Internally also very good, with a neat period gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: " 'Vera, Hoping this will open a "charmed magic casement for you" with love, Joan". Very small contemporaneous gilt printed bookseller's label to the bottom of the front paste-down 'Books & Careers 84 Victoria Street, London SW1'. Interior pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a good but incomplete green printed price-clipped dustwrapper, which has large chips and associated tears and creases to the edges. Large chips to the head and tail of the spine, and edges. Large chip also to lower portion of the spine. Very slight fading to the spine colour. (please see scans) ***x prelim-pages plus 169 text-pages. 204mm x 138mm. ***'Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 Jan 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.' (Wiki) ***'Freya Stark has become one of the few outstanding travel writers of our time. By her vivid accounts of travel in Persia, Arabia and the Near East her many readers have themselves become travellers-at-heart. Her new book is a more personal and a more individual kind of book. It deals with a different kind of journey - one for which her experiences may in some measure equip her as a guide - and one which we are all travellers.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, in its original fragile dustwrapper (defective) with attractive wood-engraving chapter-heads by Reynolds Stone. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wood-cut title-page vignette engraving by Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition. With a three-page foreword and nine-page "Synopsis of History (may be omitted by the well-informed)" by Freya Stark to the fore. Attractive green engraved vignette by Reynolds Stone to the title-page. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs by Freya Stark. Double-page black and red sketch-map by E. G. Morton. ***Very good in blue-green textured cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and front board. Boards quite clean with some marks commensurate with age and handling and some browning to the spine. Please note, there is an old surface water-stain to the bottom corner of the front board, not affecting the interior pages (please see scans). No creases or bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean, with the top edge stained blue-green by the publisher to match the boards (now faded). Internally also very good with light offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. Attractive, contemporaneous black and white astrological "Scorpio" wood-cut illustrated Ex-Libris bookplate to front board: 'Ex-Libris Scorpio John O'Connor - Carpe Diem'. No other inscriptions or annotations. Interior pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. All plates present. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Spine faded. Old surface water-stain to bottom corner of front board not affecting interior pages. No dustwrapper. xxiv prelim-pages plus 263 text-pages including References and Index at the back of the book. 204mm x 156mm. ***Contents: Foreword; Synopsis of History; Dates; Chapters: 1. Dawn in Ionia; 2. Smyrna (The Family in the Levant); 3. Clazeomenae (The Philosophic Weather); 4. Teos. Anacreon and the Poetry of Living; 5. Erythrae (Exile and Slavery); 6. Chios (Ingredients of Empire); 7. Myrina (New Harvests Cover the Land); 8. Gryneium (Solitude and Patrotism); 9. Pitane (Toleration and Truth); 10. Pergamum (The Raiders of the Border); 11. Cyme (The Phrygian Mood; 12. Phocaea. (Decision). ***'Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 Jan 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.' (Wiki) ***'The book describes Freya Stark's travels in 1952 to fifty-five ancient ruined and deserted classical sites in Western Turkey. Dedicated to Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West. ***First printing of the true first edition, profusely illustrated, and with an attractive contemporaneous Ex-Libris bookplate. We also have a first edition of "THE LYCIAN SHORE" listed, with the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original publisher's green paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: 110pp., [ij], vignettes, table of contents. Price clipped. Fine copy.,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. 10 pp, 169 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, good condition, no dust-wrapper, spine faded, text in very good, clean condition.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG-. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Thus. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & creased, slight fray at tail cap, a little marking and toning); pp. [viii (last blank)], 200, with line drawings + a map. A good copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Thus. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, spine sunned, trifling spots & marks); pp. vi, 170, with decorations by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 169 p. [THE CENTURY TRAVELLERS].

No Jacket. FIRST EDITION, lacks d/w; octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. *** BOOK in very good clean tight and unmarked condition. Green boards with gilt title on spine and gilt facsimile signature on upper board. Top edge green, other edges untrimmed. 341 pages including index, map and 40 pages of b&w illustations, chapter endpiece woodcuts by Stone. Dust jacket in fair condition; it is now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS; This selection covers the author's travels to Persia and Iraq with an interlude in Canada. Size: 225x150mm.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (endpapers tanned, corners slightly bumped, leaf edges a little speckled) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly sunned, localised lifting of laminate); pp. viii, 230, with frontispiece portrait & wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reynolds Stone [wood engravings] ; Sketch Map by H. W. Hawes (illustrator). First Edition. THE COAST OF INCENSE is the third book in Freya Stark's autobiography. It covers the middle years (1933-1939). The author emerges as an intelligent and gifted woman, a sensitive observer and a courageous traveler. Her vivid, intimate descriptions of Egypt, the Persian Gulf, Greece, Italy and the Middle East allows us to travel vicariously with every turn of the page. A sunset in Aden, the treasures of Tutankhamen, dinner with the Sheikh of Kuwait, a visit to the Queen of Iraq, a journey on the Orient Express--all are brought to life. The real focus of this book, however, is the author's introduction to South Arabia, "whose distant, severe and unimaginable beauty lives in my heart." xiii, 286p. numerous photo illustrations including some wood engravings by Reynolds Stone., map. 23 cm. Book is bright, clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Cloth shows no wear, corners are sharp. . The price-clipped dustjacket has some minor top-edge wear closed with acid-free tape on underside, but is otherwise very bright and clean. Weight, 668g.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). Reprint. 8vo. original prinmted paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, slightly marked, prev. owner's details to first page, one crossed out); pp. x, 170 (last blank), with decorations by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. original green buckram gilt (cloth a little rubbed & flecked, spine slightly faded with a few marks, prev. owner's label to FFE, some offsetting to a couple of leaves, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xiv (last blank), 346, with 24 illustrations, a map & wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy. [Neate S156: A promising Alpine career as a young woman was curtailed by illness and frailty, but she went on to become a noted explorer of the Middle East. Her biggest climb was Monte Rosa from the Marinelli Hut. Interesting references to contemporary climbers, particularly W.P.Ker].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated Self Portrait Frontispiece and Woodcuts By Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked. All dustwrappers are film protected. PayPal accepted. Travels and comments. Original cloth, slight spotting to endpapers in pictorial dustwrapper. A little brown fade to endpapers. Complete with original price.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket by Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in November 1948, this is a second impression of June 1949. Jacket somewhat worn and tatty, with slight loss to top of spine, old tape marks, closed tears and scuffing and loss to corners and folds, slight page yellowing. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square. 169pp. Musings on travel by intrepid explorer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated with photographic plates and a double page sketch map by E G Morton - title page engraving by Reynolds Stone, all plates are present as listed (illustrator). 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked. PayPal accepted. All dust wrappers are film protected. First edition. Original cloth faded at head and a larger fade at foot of spine where part of the dust wrapper is missing, in pictorial dust wrapper also lacking a few pieces and is marked. Complete with original price.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). Second Printing. VG/VG-. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (spotting to leaf edges & endpapers, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges rubbed and frayed with slight loss, tape repairs on reverse); pp. x, 170, with numerous illustrations & a sketch map. A very good copy.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original brown boards (leaf edge spotting, endpapers a trifle offset, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed); pp. xi, 204, with numerous illustrations by the author and title-page wood engraved decoration by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original green buckram gilt (short inscrip. to FFE, endpapers a trifle offset, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slightly rubbed with a few short closed tears, slight marks to rear panel); pp. xvi (last blank), 288 (last blank), with 51 illustrations, a sketch map and wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A near fine copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reynolds Stone (illustrator). First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, backstrip and exposed boards a little sunned) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked); pp. xii (last blank), 114, with numerous illustrations by the author and title-page wood engraved decoration by Reynolds Stone. A very good copy.