Dorina L. Neave — Twenty-Six Years on the Bosphorus

London, Grayson & Grayson, 1933. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of the illustrated reminiscences of Dorina Neave on her time in Constantinople, now Istanbul, in the original dust wrapper. First edition. Scarce.In publisher's original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece portrait of the author by Renée Neave and eleven further monochrome plates. Collated, complete.English writer Dorina Neave spent a large proportion of her early years in Constantinople, now Istanbul, residing in one of the "water mansions" along the Bosphorus. She authored three books on her experiences in Turkey during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, the present volume being her first published work. In publisher's original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Signature of previous owner to the front paste down. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to minor loss of cloth to spine head and tail. Light marking more noticeable to the front board. Dust wrapper suffers from heavier shelf wear, featuring a number of closed tears to edges and a few sizeable chips, predominantly to the top edge. Tide mark to the front of wrap and significant further marking and discolouration. Internally, generally firmly bound with the plate facing page 18 being a little delicate. Light spotting mainly to the first twenty pages, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Renée Neave. Very Good/Good Only.