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DON GYPSY: ADVENTURES WITH A FIDDLE IN BARBARY, ANDALUSIA AND LA MANCHA.
by Starkie, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1936. 525 pp, 8 3/4" H, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front board. B&w frontispiece & title page drawing, 6 b&w photographs, fold-out map after Epilogue, a few examples of musical notation. Describes "the further adventures of a musical picaroon mounted on a frisky hobby-horse." Contents: Prologue / Barbary: The Oracle of the Tarots; Tangier; An International Picaroon; The Puritan Gypsy and the Stolen Child; The Eyes of Tetuan; Moorish "Zambra"; The Jewish Bookseller; The Nomad Coppersmiths; The Road to Andalusia from Minaret to Belfry / Andalusia: Andalusia; Andalusian Parody; The Train Up Country; Ronda; Ronda Romances; On the Road; Village Paganini; A Vagabond in Granada; Street Player in Granada; The Alhambra; The Sacro Monte; The Garden of the Musician; Cave-Dwelling Gypsies; The Singing Town of the Alpujarras; The Street with the Seven Turnings; The Pied Piper of Sherry; Puerto de Santa Maria; Cadiz; Seville / Epilogue; Index and Glossary; A Wanderer's Library; Notes; List of Gramaphone Records of Spanish Folk-singers. Light toning in the margins of the pages, light browning to the edges of the endpapers, light wrinkling at the top/bottom of the spine, slight fading to the spine colour, light edge wear, darkening to the top of the text block - light browning on the fore-edge and bottom of the text block.. Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Rackham, frontispiece and title -page design..
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31193
- Title
- DON GYPSY: ADVENTURES WITH A FIDDLE IN BARBARY, ANDALUSIA AND LA MANCHA.
- Author
- Starkie, Walter
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham, frontispiece and title -page design.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- William Starkie, Arthur Rackham, Walking Holidays, Tangier, Barbary, Musicians, Music, Fiddle Music, Xauen, Jewish Music, Spain, Coppersmiths, Gypsies, Nomads, Moors, Andalusia, Blood Brother Ceremony, Flamenco, Ronda, Brotherhood of Road, Alhambra, Evil
- Bookseller catalogs
- History and Travel; Music & Dance;
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