A Vagabond in the Caucasus with Some Notes of His Experiences Among the Russians

Graham, Stephen

Verlag: John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1911

Beschreibung

1911. First edition. vii, 311pp., 16 black and white plates and 1 of 2 maps (the map to face page 128 is missing). There are 4 pages concerning the works of Anatole France together with a 16 page catalogue at the end of the book. Top edge gilt. Stephen Graham (1884-1975) was a British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. His best-known books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and his journey to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims. In 'A Vagabond in the Caucasus' he provides a supremely unique look on travel through Russia and the Caucasus. Graham takes to the road in a modest fashion, with a bag and his camera at his side. As he arrives in Moscow not long after the Russian Revolution in 1917 he is not entirely welcomed with open arms. Instead, Graham is greeted by a group of soldiers who arrest him on the spot. He recounts this experience, as well as every moment of his time spent "vagabonding" across the Caucasus with glorious detail. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board and a gold illustration of two pistols on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and soiling on the boards. The spine ends are bumped with a little damage to the cloth and the titling on the spine is worn. There is a 5/8" dent in the cloth on the spine, just below the titling, that has caused a little damage to the cloth. The contents are tight and clean apart from a few small marks and a stain on the bottom edge of page 174. There is a small stain on the fore edge of the text block of the preliminary and first 21 pages and this has seeped a little way into the fore margin of these pages. The endpapers, half-title page and last few pages of the catalogue are foxed and there is a thin split down the spine gutter of the front endpapers. A name and date (1929) has been written on the front free endpaper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers gRussiaEtc02

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Vagabond in the Caucasus with Some Notes ...

Verlag: John Lane The Bodley Head, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1911

Einband: Green Hardback

Zustand: Very Good-

Auflage: First Edition