Description
The book is in Very Good condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a chipped paper label on a cloth Eighth-wrap cloth spine. The deckled page blocks are compressed, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, rubbed spine ends, heavy edge wear and rounded and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with the cleanly removed frontispiece from the title page attached to the second free end paper with tape that has yellowed. The previous owner’s bookplate is on the front paste down without any other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
No dust jacket.
Impressions from two years in Tahiti. Compelling autobiographical fragment. 10 black-and-white illustrations. Paul Gauguin fled what he called “filthy Europe” in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa — a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa — the most widely known of Gauguin’s writings — is a rare first edition (1919), in a lucid translation capturing the artist’s unpretentious style.
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