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John Lane the Bodley Head 1927. Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, coloured illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, xii + 304pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to some pages throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light cracking sporadically throughout)
Two Vagabonds in Albania by Jan Gordon and Cora J. Gordon - 1927
by Jan Gordon and Cora J. Gordon
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Two Vagabonds in Albania
by Jan Gordon and Cora J. Gordon
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London : John Lane The Bodley Head , 1927. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Jan Gordon and Cora J. Gordon. A lighthearted and thoroughly illustrated account of the Two Vagabonds in Albania. The observations and illustrations within this copy of Two Vagabonds in Albania were based on the pairs travels in 1925 and takes a comedic and lighthearted approach. Jan Gordon was an English printmaker and journalist and Cora Gordon was an English artist, writer and musician. They started the series of Two Vagabonds travel books that were very popular. Including two colour plates and a colour frontispiece, and nine plates in half-tone and a further thirty in text drawings. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original blue decorative cloth binding. The spine is faded and there is some rubbing to the joints and extremities. A Library sticker is on the front board and to the front pastedown and a library stamp is to the reverse of the title page. Internally, firmly bound. With bright, clean pages with scattered spots mainly to the front few pages. Very Good
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Rooke Books
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- Illustrator Jan Gordon and Cora J. Gordon
- Format/Binding Cloth
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher John Lane The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1927
- Size 9.5" by 6.5"
- Keywords Jan gordon cora. j gordon two vagabonds in albania travel cora. j gordon
- Size 9.5\" by 6.5\"
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Two Vagabonds in Albania
by GORDON, JAN and CORA J
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Two Vagabonds in Albania
by Gordon, Jan and Cora
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1927. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. chipped dust jacket 304pp., Remarkable account of travel in EuropeÕs most backward State. Nicely illustrated with drawings and col. & b/w plates
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Two Vagabonds in Albania
by (Albania) Gordon, Jan and Cora J
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New York, New York, United States
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London: John Lane, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by the authors. Pp. [xiv], 304. 1 vols. 8vo. Original royal blue cloth with elaborate mosaic pattern in orange and black on upper cover and spine. Original dust jacket. Some tears and losses to jacket, some short tears or losses in margins of some leaves from opening,else a very good copy. First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by the authors. Pp. [xiv], 304. 1 vols. 8vo. The interesting and amusing account of the Gordon's journey through Albania during the summer of 1926, The authors had written other volumes about their journeys in Spain, the Balkans, Languedoc, Sweden and Lapland.
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