THE ZODIAC ARCH (First edition - first printing)

Langue : anglais

Edité par John Murray, London, 1968

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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.…

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Titre
THE ZODIAC ARCH (First edition - first printing)
Auteur
Freya Stark
Éditeur
John Murray, London
Année de publication
1968
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Illustrateur
Reynolds Stone
Édition
First Edition
Impression
First Printing
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