Description
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a strong paper label on a cloth Eighth-wrap cloth spine. The deckled page blocks are slightly compressed, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, heavy edge wear and two rounded and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s bookplate 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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