BRENAN, Gerald. South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1957. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the wonderful dust jacket designed by Patricia Davey. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, with very mild bumps to corners. The binding tight and square, spots to the textblock closed edges with light scattered foxing to endpapers and prelims, but largely fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net), with several small chips and nicks to the corners and tips, light spots to flaps.
An ode to rural, almost-medieval Spanish tradition by Brenan who had, shortly after the First World War, retreated to the primitive mountain village of Yegen. Here he regales the folk and modern customs of its peasant population—witches, magical rites, cave villages, brothels, botany. Bloomsbury members Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Ralph Partridge, Dora Carrington, and others also make appearances on their various trips to visit the author.
BRENAN, Gerald. South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1957. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the wonderful dust jacket designed by Patricia Davey. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, with very mild bumps to corners. The binding tight and square, spots to the textblock closed edges with light scattered foxing to endpapers and prelims, but largely fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net), with several small chips and nicks to the corners and tips, light spots to flaps.
An ode to rural, almost-medieval Spanish tradition by Brenan who had, shortly after the First World War, retreated to the primitive mountain village of Yegen. Here he regales the folk and modern customs of its peasant population—witches, magical rites, cave villages, brothels, botany. Bloomsbury members Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Ralph Partridge, Dora Carrington, and others also make appearances on their various trips to visit the author.
