[SMART (Walter).]

Walter Smart by Some of his Friends.

First edition, no. 165 of 500 copies. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, with a few foxed spots. Gift inscription to edition page. 13pp. Chichester, Chichester Press Limited, n.d, 1963.

£150.00
[SMART (Walter).]
Walter Smart by Some of his Friends.

A slim commemoration volume to Sir Walter Smart, a Middle East diplomat and humanist, for some years the Oriental Secretary at the British Embassy, Cairo. The contributors read like a roll-call of the great and the good in the world of letters in Cairo: Lawrence Durrell, Julian Amery, Robin Fedden, Patrick Kinross, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Freya Stark and Christopher Sykes, among others.

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220183