Search Results: the minaret of djam by freya stark

Paperback. Very Good.

Transatlantic Arts, 1971-09. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2010. Paperback. New. 168 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2010-12-21. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: John Murray, 1974. Hard cover, 99 pages. Reprint of the 1970 edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 48 full-page black and white photographs,as well as sketches and a double page map on blue paper. Includes a photograph of one of the Buddhas of Bamian, destroyed in March 2001. Very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London John Murray, 1970, hardcover. Reprinted 1974. The Times Literary Supplement said: the author "unites in one mind the traveller, the historian, the philosopher and the poet." -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket (flap clipped with publisher's new price). ISBN 0719520665

John Murray,, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, plates and illustrations in the text and double-page map on green stock, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2010-12-21. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London: John Murray, 1970. [Middle East Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[16] 99 [1]. With 24 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a blue sketch map of the location, and numerous drawings, by the author and her two travelling companions. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge green. With the dust-jacket designed by Sebastian Carter, priced at 45s / £2.25. Typographic bookplate of Jessie Strachan to front fly-leaf, quoting Milton. Some spotting and toning to edges, otherwise a clean copy internally. Jacket shows some rubbing and a little grubbiness to extremities, with some peeling to the laminate. Very good. The story of Stark's final journey in 1968, to find the minaret of Djam in western Afghanistan, in her 75th year.

Transatlantic Arts. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London: John Murray, 1970.. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 99, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, card from the author loosely inserted addressed to a "Dr. Ofsie". Frontispiece, double page map plus black and white photographic illustrations and line illustrations in the text. Some wear to the edges of the jacket, else very good. Stark comments that the illustration on the card features a historical scene of a town some ten miles from her Italian residence at Asolo. She suggests it is worth seeing and that she would like her correspondent to visit her there.

1970. London, John Murray, [1970]. 8vo. Original cloth with gilt lettering to spine in the original price-clipped wrapper; pp. [viii], 99; 51 black and white photo plates and one double-page map on turquois paper, numerous illustrations after drawings to text; edges of wrappers with minimal wear, a very good copy. First edition, inscibed by the author to Barbara [Toy] on front fly-leaf, dated 1977. Stark recounts her journey from Kabul, across Afghanistan to Herat and Kandahar in search of the Minaret of Djam, the magnificent symbol of the powerful Ghorid Empire that once stretched from Iran to India lies in the heart of central Afghanistan's inaccessible Ghor Province. Provenance: Barbara Toy, the Australian writer, traveller and playwright was granted to visit Saudi Arabia, and was one of the first Western women to talk to the King's harem. She drove her legendary 1950 Land Rover Polyanna, a motorcar still running and looked after. Her 1957 book A Fool Strikes Oil is a sought-after account of her… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc./London: John Murray, 1940-1970. Collection of 12 novels and autobiographies by British-Italian explorer and travel writer Freya Stark. Octavo, 12 volumes, original cloth. The collection includes first editions of A Winter in Arabia, Beyond Euphrates, The Coast of Incense, and Ionia: A Quest. The Lycian Shore, Riding to the Tigris, Rome on the Euphrates, and The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan with early printings of East is West, Traveller's Prelude, Dust in the Lion's Paw. Each volume is in near fine condition, 8 are in the original dust jackets which are in good to near fine condition. British-Italian explorer and travel writer Dame Freya Madeline Stark 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. Her best-known works include A Winter in Arabia (1940).… Read More