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Anglo-Italian author and adventuress Freya Stark was the O.G. badass: fluent in Arabic and Turkish, she blazed her way across the Middle East and Afghanistan at a time when few Westerners, much less women, dared to tread there. Praised as a “poet of travel,” her evocative writing earned her fans like Vita Sackville-West and her memoirs make for exhilarating reading.

This first volume of her memoirs, from a second printing, retells her unconventional childhood: born in Paris in 1893 and brought up in France, Italy, and England, she had no formal schooling, but spoke three languages by the time she was five. She was a nurse on the Italian front in World War I, then learned Arabic and mountaineering in the Alps. With original photographs and a graphic, vivid cover, it will draw admirers to your cocktail table like a magnet.

This book is in good vintage condition. Its dust jacket, which is secured in plastic, has a few small tears. The pages are clean and the volume is well intact. This title is part of a 4-book set, each sold separately.

Anglo-Italian author and adventuress Freya Stark was the O.G. badass: fluent in Arabic and Turkish, she blazed her way across the Middle East and Afghanistan at a time when few Westerners, much less women, dared to tread there. Praised as a “poet of travel,” her evocative writing earned her fans like Vita Sackville-West and her memoirs make for exhilarating reading.

This first-edition of the second volume of her memoirs, retells her early journeys through Iraq and Syria in the ‘20s and ‘30s, includes her original photographs, and boasts a graphic, vivid cover that will draw admirers to your cocktail table like a magnet.

This book is in good vintage condition. Its dust jacket, which is secured in plastic, has a few small tears and chips. The pages are clean and the volume is well intact. This title is part of a 4-book set, each sold separately.

Anglo-Italian author and adventuress Freya Stark was the O.G. badass: fluent in Arabic and Turkish, she blazed her way across the Middle East and Afghanistan at a time when few Westerners, much less women, dared to tread there. Praised as a “poet of travel,” her evocative writing earned her fans like Vita Sackville-West and her memoirs make for exhilarating reading.

This first-edition of the third volume of her memoirs recalls journeys in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian desert in the ‘30s, includes her original photographs, and boasts a graphic, vivid cover that will draw admirers to your cocktail table like a magnet.

This book is in good vintage condition. Its dust jacket, which is secured in plastic, has a few small tears. The pages are clean and the volume is well intact. This title is part of a 4-book set, each sold separately.

Anglo-Italian author and adventuress Freya Stark was the O.G. badass: fluent in Arabic and Turkish, she blazed her way across the Middle East and Afghanistan at a time when few Westerners, much less women, dared to tread there. Praised as a “poet of travel,” her evocative writing earned her fans like Vita Sackville-West and her memoirs make for exhilarating reading.

This first edition of the fourth volume of her memoirs recalls the Middle East during and after World War II, when Stark's knowledge of the region made her ideally suited to influence public opinion for the Allied cause and indispensable to the Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office. It includes her original photographs and a graphic, vivid cover that will draw admirers to your cocktail table like a magnet.

This book is in good vintage condition. Its dust jacket, which is secured in plastic, has a few very minor creases. The pages are clean and the volume is well intact. This title is part of a 4-book set, each sold separately.

Today’s audiences may recognize this writer's name from her best-known work, the novella Gigi, which was made into a 1951 Broadway musical starring a pre-fame Audrey Hepburn — who was discovered by the author herself — and later adapted into an Oscar-winning 1958 film. But Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvanel Goudeket, better known simply as Colette, lives on as a revered French national treasure for the over 50 boundary-smashing works she published and for the bold, passionate way she lived her remarkable life. This elegant monograph, written entirely in French, contains the most exquisite portraits of the legendary figure—and really, of anyone—that we've ever seen. This a must for any sophisticated Francophile.

This book is sold in as-is vintage condition. There are several small tears to its dust jacket, which is protected in plastic. The pages are clean. Part of the volume has separated from the back cover. Please see our detailed photos.