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Contemporary gift inscription in period ink hand to first free endpaper
the Spread Eagle (Oxford St) and the Red Lion (Barnes)
Presentation copy from the author to fellow travel writer Eric Newby
of which 600 were for sale
8vo (24 x 18 cms)
The Thief's Journal first world war Contemporary gift inscription in periodNew 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