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279. STARK, Dame Freya Madeline. rome on the euphrates. the story of a frontier. London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited for John Murray, 1966.
£80
8vo (221 x 144mm). original blue buckram, lettered in gilt on the upper board and spine, top edges light blue/grey, dustwrapper, price-clipped and with ‘John murray £4.50’ price label; pp. xi, [1 (blank)], 481, [1 (blank)]; title printed in red and black, dedication with vignette after reynolds stone, 24 monochrome photographic plates printed recto- and-verso, the majority after stark, one folding map printed in brown and black, and one double-page map in the text; extremities very lightly rubbed,
spine slightly faded,
extremities lightly rubbed and with small chips, skilfully-repaired tear on folding map, otherwise a very good copy.
first edition, ?later issue. in later life, stark (?1893-1993) turned from writing accounts of contemporary events and travels in the middle east and central Asia, in order ‘to meditate on history and landscape in a series of books based on journeys to sites of classical antiquity’ (odnb), beginning with Ionia: A Quest (1954), in which she visited locations in Asia minor described by herodotus. Rome on the Euphrates narrates the history of the euphrates as a geographical and political frontier through the eight centuries of roman warfare around it that followed the battle of magnesia in 189bc. the dustwrapper on this copy has been price-clipped and bears a decimal (i.e. post-1971) publisher’s price label, suggesting that this copy of the first edition was issued in circa 1971 (however, none of the titles listed on the dustwrapper postdate this work).
280. STEIN, Gertrude. paris france. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons 1940.
£175
8vo. original blue cloth with very slightly chipped dust wrapper and scarce wrap around band. A near fine copy.
second us edition.
281. STEINBECK, John. cup of gold. New York. Robert M. McBride & Company 1929.
£998
8vo., original yellow cloth lettered in black on spine and upper board. A near fine copy.
first edition. one of only 600 copies issued in the first issue binding. steinbeck’s first book, a novelized version of the life of the pirate henry morgan.
282. STEINBERG, Saul. the passport. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1954.
£498
folio, original cloth with dust wrapper. Wth 350 drawings. A near fine copy.
first edition. inscribed by steinberg “for burt britton, steinberg 1975”. burt britton wa the co-founder of the new york bookstore books & co.
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