Robert Taylor SKINNER / In the Cevennes Without a Donkey Signed

  

In the Cevennes Without a Donkey. Description: [Literary pilgrimage] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp. Dark red cloth with gilt lettering to front board.

Photographic frontispiece, two-tone title page, two maps, and 30 photographic plates. With a label INSCRIBED by the author in black ink adhered to the half-title. Light toning throughout, marking to front board - possibly from an archival repair. An early twentieth century homage to Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece, albeit sans donkey. Throughout are evocative photographs capturing early twentieth century rural France. This book is extremely rare with only one hundred copies printed for private circulation. It is inscribed by the author, and the message reads,'For the Rev.

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