Spanish Raggle-Taggle : adventures with a fiddle in North Spain by Walter Starkie - 1961

Penguin Book, 1961. Paperback. Acceptable. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 318 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Small tears and chipping, with heavy tanning and marking overall. Book is slightly curled.

Penguin Books, 1961. Paperback. Good. 1961. No Edition Stated. 318 pages. Paperback book. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

John Murray, 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. Cheap Edition. 488 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Light foxing and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Book is noticeable bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends.

J. Murray. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Acceptable dust jacket. Rear hinge cracked. Dust jacket price clipped. (Musicians, Spain, Travel)

Penguin, 1961. First Edition THUS. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition THUS. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Abridged by author. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin, 1961. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 318pp, b/w map, endpapers & verso of the covers yellowed, page margins tanned. Penguin 1197. Starkie travels from San Sebastian to Madrid by way of Burgos & Segovia, on foot earning his living as a wandering minstrel. The Penguin edition abridged by the author.

John Murray, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. First Edition. 488 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper with missing corner. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight backwards lean.

John Murray, London, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Poor. Previous owner's name on first page. Dust wrapper looking very sad and stuck together with sticky tape in several places. Age marks to closed edges of pages. Musty aroma to book. Moderate age and reading wear to book. 488 pages. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Spain; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55352. .

London: John Murray, 1934. 488 pp, 8 3/4" H, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front board, b&w frontispiece & title page drawing, fold-out map after Glossary. Describes "a summer journey I made alone on foot in Spain, earning my living as a wandering minstrel. In Spain, the wandering minstrel has had a long and honoured tradition ever since the Middle Ages when the 'juglar' wandered from castle to castle reciting the epic poems. A 'juglar' may be defined as one who performs before the public whether as rhapsodist, fiddler, ballad-singer, story-teller, juggler or buffon. A modern 'juglar' has to wear a tigher belt and a more ragged coat than in the golden days long ago, but he may still get his eye full as well as his ear full, and as he saunters through the countryside his mind becomes enriched with many a golden sentence and tune." from the Preface. One or two pages with a light foxing mark, page 205 has a tiny hole - not… Read More

London: John Murray, 1936. xvi+488pp. Pale blue cloth boards. Blue lettering and vignette. Book firm, clean and unmarked. Edges foxed. D/W not price clipped. Wrapper rubbed with approximately 1" loss base of spine and 2" tear lower edge of front panel. Some creasing. Front panel of wrapper states "First Cheap Edition".. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 8vo.