A Stranger in Spain. [Fourth Impression]. PRESENTATION COPY TO OLWEN CARADOC EVANS
by MORTON H. V
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Methuen,, [1955]. 8vo., Fourth Impression, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 9 monochrome plates, front endpaper map and rear endpaper table in red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at joints and fold-ins and chipped without material loss at head and tail of backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND OLWEN CARADOC EVANS, WITH HIS INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE AND HER NEAT GREEN BOOKPLATE ON TITLE. Published in the same year as the first edition. Morton met Evans during a tour of Wales in the latter half of 1957. He was ostensibly collecting material for a feature commissioned by National Geographic magazine, but in the event it was never published. In the course of his research he struck up a friendship with one of his guides Olwen Caradoc, and the two remained regular correspondents for over twenty years. Fields & Devenish 38 (recording the first edition).
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- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10322
- Title
- A Stranger in Spain. [Fourth Impression]. PRESENTATION COPY TO OLWEN CARADOC EVANS
- Author
- MORTON H. V
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen,
- Date Published
- [1955]
- Keywords
- modern firsts, h v morton, caradoc evans, travel, spain, h.v. morton, modern first editions, stranger, spain
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