Description
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a square spine and front deboss, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition without any marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price on the front flap and mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new archival wrap
Impressions from two years in Tahiti. Compelling autobiographical fragment. 24 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 reproduced here from a rare early edition (1919), in a lucid translation capturing the artist’s unpretentious style.
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