The Lycian Shore

Author: STARK, [Dame] Freya (1893-1993)
Title: The Lycian Shore
Publication: London: John Murray, 1956

Description: [Turkish Travel] FIRST EDITION, with SIGNED MANUSCRIPT POSTCARD. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 204. With occasional in-text illustrations by the author, a title page vignette by Reynolds Stone, a folding map at rear, and 26 double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's aqua cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Also with a manuscript postcard depicting Florence from Freya Stark, dated October 1957: 'It was good of you to | write; it always is a | pleasure when someone | tells a writer that her | words have given something. | I hope you will like | the volume just out! | yours truly | Freya Stark Perowne.' Typographic bookplate of Jessie Strachan to front fly-leaf, quoting Milton. Some spotting and toning to edges and endpapers, otherwise a clean copy internally. Some light wear and spotting to jacket. Very good. The second instalment of Stark's later Turkish travels, following 'Ionia: A Quest' (1954).

Seller ID: 64369

Subject: Illustrated & Plate Books, Travel & Topography, History & Biography



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