8vo. xi, 481pp, [1]. With half-title; title page in red and black. Original publisher's light blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, with original pictorial printed paper dust-wrapper. Light wear to edges of dust-wrapper; otherwise, a fine copy.

The first edition, in original dust-wrapper, of historian and travel writer Dame Freya Madeline Stark's (1893 – 1993) acclaimed account of her travels along the ancient river Euphrates in Turkey. Both travelogue and historiography, Stark chose to contrast her autobiographical notes with an insightful and revealing study on the Eastern Roman Empire, recalling 800 years of - often futile - warfare across the region claimed as 'Augusta Euphrantentis'.