Lavengro: the Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest (Two Volumes)
by Borrow, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Limited Editions Club. Fine with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. Two volumes in slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies, this being #840, signed to the colophon by Barnett Freedman, illustrator. Cloth/gilt, TEG, pictorial endpages. Fine condition in faintly sunned/soiled slipcase. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Illustrator .
Synopsis
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters".
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46431
- Title
- Lavengro: the Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Borrow, George
- Illustrator
- Barnett Freedman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1936
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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