The Thief's Journal first world war This was the first widely

This was the first widely read book with first-hand information on Gypsies

the Spread Eagle (Oxford St) and the Red Lion (Barnes)

Presentation copy from the author to fellow travel writer Eric Newby

of which 600 were for sale

New York: A

The Thief's Journal first world war This was the first widelyNew York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition, first printing, in English, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman, with a forward by Jean Paul Satre. Originally published by Gallimard in Paris in 1949 as "Journal du Voleur". Original red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, a couple of trivial blemishes, near fine. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A lovely copy of this seminal work of "outsider" literature, first