Author: James Pope-Hennessy
Title: The Baths of Absalom: A Footnote to Froude
Description: London, Allan Wingate, 1954. First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of the scarce first edition of James Pope-Hennessy's observations on to a visit to the West Indies, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this scarce work from British biographer and travel writer James Pope Hennessy. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Described as 'neither a tract nor a travelogue' by the publisher, this work details Pope-Hennessy's response to 'the visual and spiritual impact of the islands of Santa Lucia, Dominica and Martinique, which reveals the stagnant state of our oldest British colonies and contrasts it with the more sophisticated squalor of their French neighbour&apos.Illustrated with a frontispiece from prominent twentieth century portrait artist Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud.A In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip, with a minor bump to head of front board. Otherwise, externally fine. Small loss to dust wrapper back strip tail, with edgewear to back strip head and head of front wrap. Light marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Lucian Freud. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

Keywords: barbados froude absalom west indies froude dominica Lucian Freud


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