The Autumn Road to the Isles
The Autumn Road to the Isles
'BB' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford). London: Nicholas Kaye, 1964.
8vo., 176 pp. Colour frontis illustration plus chapter heading and full-page wood-cut engravings by the author throughout. Bound in deep blue and orange woven cloth, lettered in white to spine. Unclipped colour pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white with stag in oval to spine. Top edge stained greyish-blue.
Book and jacket in pristine condition.
Describes in words and beautiful illustrations, the authors roamings and encounters through northern Scotland "with trailer caravan in place of Romany 'vardo' " during the "depopulated weeks" of October and November.
First published in 1959, third printing, 1964.
$65.00 CDN