The Thief's Journal first world war it was Grahame's fourth book

it was Grahame's fourth book and began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair

This was the first widely read book with first-hand information on Gypsies

Presentation copy from the author to fellow travel writer Eric Newby

of which 600 were for sale

New York: A

The Thief's Journal first world war it was Grahame's fourth bookNew York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition, first printing, in English, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman, with a forward by Jean Paul Satre. Originally published by Gallimard in Paris in 1949 as "Journal du Voleur". Original red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, a couple of trivial blemishes, near fine. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A lovely copy of this seminal work of "outsider" literature, first