Arts / Antique & Vintage Books / Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark

• Book Title: Baghdad Sketches
• Author: Freya Stark
• ISBN: mw0120
• Publisher: John Murray
• Year Published: 1937
• Our Price: £48.40 GBP ($94.38 USD)
• Description: John Murray 1937: first edition : green cloth hardcover: 289 pages: 57 good quality photographic illustrations taken by the author: 10 b/w line drawings by E. N. Prescott: illustrated two page map by H Hawes . Synopsis: Thirty sketches, some previously published in "The Baghdad Times" in which Freya Stark paints a picture of daily life in Baghdad, and her travels into neighbouring areas of Iraq and beyond . Description of surroundings, scenes, people and events from her life, firstly in the slums of Baghdad, then from a room in a house on the Western side of the Tigris : followed by accounts of her excursions into the desert, Kuwait in 1937, Failichah( Failihah) , Samarra and Tekrit. Condition: slight wear including small mark to lower spine: small stain to page edges: paper slightly yellowed: overall clean, good, firm and collectable.
• Condition: Collectable- Very Good
• Dustcover: No
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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