GILKYSON, Walter. The Lost Adventurer
GILKYSON, Walter. The Lost Adventurer. New York: Scribners. 1927. 8vo. pp. [x], 297. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to front board and spine. Near fine, the binding tight and square, contents clean barring a few odd singular stains to prelims. The superb deco jacket by J. W. Oliver price-clipped with a few discreet tape repairs to verso top edges, but bright and sharp. Uncommon.
An interesting novel about a lonely romantic who ups sticks and moves from his quiet Pennsylvania life and lands in Valencia midst the 1869 Spanish Revolution in search of the ‘unattainable satisfactions which lie beyond mere human experience”. A woman is invariably involved--see jacket art.
GILKYSON, Walter. The Lost Adventurer. New York: Scribners. 1927. 8vo. pp. [x], 297. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to front board and spine. Near fine, the binding tight and square, contents clean barring a few odd singular stains to prelims. The superb deco jacket by J. W. Oliver price-clipped with a few discreet tape repairs to verso top edges, but bright and sharp. Uncommon.
An interesting novel about a lonely romantic who ups sticks and moves from his quiet Pennsylvania life and lands in Valencia midst the 1869 Spanish Revolution in search of the ‘unattainable satisfactions which lie beyond mere human experience”. A woman is invariably involved--see jacket art.
GILKYSON, Walter. The Lost Adventurer. New York: Scribners. 1927. 8vo. pp. [x], 297. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to front board and spine. Near fine, the binding tight and square, contents clean barring a few odd singular stains to prelims. The superb deco jacket by J. W. Oliver price-clipped with a few discreet tape repairs to verso top edges, but bright and sharp. Uncommon.
An interesting novel about a lonely romantic who ups sticks and moves from his quiet Pennsylvania life and lands in Valencia midst the 1869 Spanish Revolution in search of the ‘unattainable satisfactions which lie beyond mere human experience”. A woman is invariably involved--see jacket art.