The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men inscribed Softback in the original pictorial

Softback in the original pictorial covers

With Oliver Messel designed bookplate to verso of first free endpaper

'list of stamps'

and then the little used Canning Stock Route to Well 48

Complete with the booklet which reproduces the text in a more reader-friendly format

The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men inscribed Softback in the original pictorialLondon: John Lehmann, 1949. With an introduction by Christopher Sykes. Reissue of 1928 first edition. Original dark blue cloth with the excellent dust jacket by Keith Vaughan, with a couple of short, closed tears. Thirty three photographs through the text. A VG+ copy. A lively account of the a visit to twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. Byron and