The Thief's Journal first world war Ends of spine slightly worn

Ends of spine slightly worn

8vo (24 x 18 cms)

14 maps (some coloured and folding) plus numerous text and full page illustrations

Hopton Castle

This was the first widely read book with first-hand information on Gypsies

The Thief's Journal first world war Ends of spine slightly wornNew York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition, first printing, in English, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman, with a forward by Jean Paul Satre. Originally published by Gallimard in Paris in 1949 as "Journal du Voleur". Original red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, a couple of trivial blemishes, near fine. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A lovely copy of this seminal work of "outsider" literature, first