Iorana ! A Tahitian Journal by GIBBINGS, Robert - 1932

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1932. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 157 pp., illustrated with wood engravings by the author.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hard Cover with Slipcase. Signed by Author(s). First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with mint-green cloth spine with gilt lettering on spine; boards covered in brown and tan paper; pictorial endpapers; 157 pages; b&w illustrations; limited edition of the First American Edition 78/385; signed by Robert Gibbings. Book in very good condition with spine sunned to tan; fore edges of boards slightly darkened. Slipcase in very good minus condition with toning and a little wear. .

London: Duckworth. 1932. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original patterned boards with a green cloth spine lettered in gilt, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with black and white wood engravings by the author. A very good copy, the binding firm, bright and fresh, the extremities just a little rubbed. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers and light spotting to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a number of short closed tears at the edges and small chips at the head of the spine. There are a few areas of discolouration to the underside from pieces of tape which are no longer present. Not price-clipped (15/- on the front flap). Inscribed by Robert Gibbings in black ink on the front free endpaper "To F. Young / from Robert Gibbings / Oct 1932". A beautifully illustrated, semi-fictitious account of the Irish wood engraver and… Read More

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1932.. First American edition; No. 16 of 385 copies signed by Robert Gibbings.. publisher's cloth-backed decorated boards in glassine and slipcase with printed paper labels.. The is a small (1/2") paper flaw to the final page of text; spine and edges of boards sunned; glassine chipped; slipcase lightly rubbed and dust-soiled.. 8vo,. With Wood-Engravings by the Author..