Two vagabonds in Languedoc

Full Title: Two vagabonds in Languedoc: A portrait group in prose.
Second Hand
Hardcover
Author: Gordon, J. & Gordon, C.
Published by: John Lane The Bodley Head
Language: English

1st edition. Book Condition: Fair.
Green cloth binding decorated with a black and orange Swedish embroidery style design to the top and bottom cover and spine borders and the centre of the top board; gilt spine titles. The contents remain crisp and bright. Boards marked, spine a bit faded top corners a bit bumped. FFEP has been mostly removed. Frontis. detached but present. Spotting throughout, however the plates remain bright and mostly unaffected.
The Two Vagabonds in Languedoc is just one of a number of titles by Jan and Cora Gordon which sold immensely well in the USA when first published in the 1930s. They were very popular in the US and toured here. Two Vagabonds in Languedoc, written in 1925, is their charming and evocative sketch of the French village of Najac. Return today to the very same village on the border of the Departments of Tarn and Aveyron and many of the landmarks mentioned are still there. Part painting in prose, part delightful narrative, this book is filled with clever observations, memorable characters and the authors’ own paintings and drawings. It will prove irresistible to anyone interested in the culture of the French village.