Grecian Italy; Adventures of Travel in Sicily Calabria and Malta
New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-190, [2] pp. Quarter buckram cloth over yellow paper boards with a paper label printed in blue on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket with an illustrated paste-on color portrait of an Italian woman. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with two color plates and with fifteen black and white plates by Frederick R. Gruger. A travel narrative of Sicily, Malta, and more of southern Italy during the early twentieth century. Forman is charmed by the traditions the rural countryside of Italy has kept up, and often draws parallels between classical antiquity to what was then the modern rural life in the southern part of Italy. Good+ / Very Good. Item #000010345
A Good or better book with foxing to the rear board and a contemporary name on the front flyleaf, a few light pencil annotations throughout; jacket shows a few traces of edge wear and minor discoloration to the rear panel.
Price: $100.00