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DON GYPSY: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
by Starkie, Walter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Bumps to both boards at bottom of spine (not affecting spine); else very good, in edgeworn jacket with chip to top of jacket spi
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About This Item
London: John Murray, (1936). First edition. Bumps to both boards at bottom of spine (not affecting spine); else very good, in edgeworn jacket with chip to top of jacket spine. Orange cloth, octavo, pp xvi, 525. Frontispiece and title-page design by Arthur Rackham (the author's uncle), 6 b/w photos, folding map.
A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with gypsies through Spain, Morocco, and many Eastern European countries, paying his way busking with his fiddle.
A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with gypsies through Spain, Morocco, and many Eastern European countries, paying his way busking with his fiddle.
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- Chanticleer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23455
- Title
- DON GYPSY: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
- Author
- Starkie, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used - Bumps to both boards at bottom of spine (not affecting spine); else very good, in edgeworn jacket with chip to top of jacket spi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1936)
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- Bumps
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