Taqui Altounyan – In Aleppo Once

A hard-to-find copy of this charming memoir of the Syrian city of Aleppo.

One of just 400 subscriber copies printed in 2001, following a first edition that appeared in 1969.

With numerous B&W photographs and colour reproductions of artwork by family members.

Altounyan, an Anglo-Armenian, and her family were visited in Aleppo by the well-known English author Arthur Ransome, who named several children in the novel Swallows and Amazons after children in the family.

Hardback, with the original jacket. Published by Amazon Publications in 2001 in England. In very good condition; clean inside with no writing.