Journey Down a Rainbow.
Book Description
FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED BY HAWKES. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine stamped in black and lettered in gilt. Top edge green. Bump to heel of spine. POI to ffep, signed by Hawkes in black pen to title page and dated “Nov 1987”, a few fox spots. Else, clean and bright. In ‘Sag’s attractive teal illustrated dust jacket: spine gently toned, wear, creasing and nicking to extremities, a few closed tears (lengthiest to rear panel), occasional fox spots.
Dealer Notes
A bright first edition copy of Priestley and Hawkes’ 1955 travelogue, documenting their separate (but twinned) journeys through the USA in 1954: “their purpose [...] to observe and reflect upon man [sic], as a social animal, (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth-century Texas,” and signed by the British archaeologist in November 1987 (who had taken “the high road to the Mesa Verde, Zuni and Taos”).
With a printed dedication: “To Carl Gustav Jung, The Wise Old Man”.
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With a printed dedication: “To Carl Gustav Jung, The Wise Old Man”.
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Author
PRIESTLEY, J.B. & HAWKES, Jacquetta; “Sag” (DJ design).
Date
1955
Binding
Cloth
Publisher
London: Heinemann-Cresset
Condition
Very good/ very good
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