Walter Smart by Some of his Friends.

£150 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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.

• Year: 1963

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