Two Vagabonds in Albania
London and New York: John Lane and Dodd, Mead, [1927].
Hardcover. Very good. Presumed first edition. xii, 304 pp, with sketch map, 3 color plates, 9 half-tone plates, and many drawings by the authors in the text. Original blue cloth decorated in black and red; no dust jacket. Corners bumped and rubbed, a few tiny tears to the cloth at the spine ends, ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and sound. British couple Jan and Cora Gordon wrote several travel books together, as well as painting, giving musical performances, and lecturing together in Europe and the United States. This book their 1925 trip to Albania, which they describe as "a half-Oritental, half-Western community trying to make a state of itself." They roamed extensively, sometimes on horseback, sometimes via dilapidated car or lorry on perilous roads, and seem to have made friends whereever they went. Their narrative includes interesting accounts of local customs, food, village life, and politics.
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