Etruscan Places.
New York: The Viking Press, 1932. Item #992 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. 200 pp. Illustrated with 20 collotype reproductions. Original black cloth; stamped in gilt, top edge stained black. Original cream dust jacket, plain wrappers. Bookseller's ticket of Paul Elder & Co., San Francesco to rear pastedown. Tight copy, paper mellowed lightly, Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $ 3. 75), spine browned, rubbed at edges, lightly soiled along top edge, with tape repoair to veros at head of spine; about Very good.
Travel essays contrasting life in ancient Etruscan Italy with contemporary fascism under Mussolini. "The first American issue of Etruscan Places was published by Viking in November 1932 from the Secker sheets." (Roberts, 157).
The collotype plates illustrate scenes and objects which Lawrence describes - pictorial survey of Etruscan civilization.
Price: $100.00