DON GYPSY: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha.
London: John Murray, (1936). First edition. Orange cloth, octavo, pp xvi, 525. Frontispiece and title-page design by Arthur Rackham (the author's uncle), 6 b/w photos, folding map. Bumps to both boards at bottom of spine (not affecting spine); else very good, in edgeworn jacket with chip to top of jacket spine. Item #23455
A professor of Spanish Studies and lecturer on Italian Literature at Trinity College and an accomplished violinist, Starkie spent many summers trekking with gypsies through Spain, Morocco, and many Eastern European countries, paying his way busking with his fiddle.
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