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London: The Seizen Press Deya Morjorca and Constable & Co., Ltd., 1936. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Memoir reflecting society, the arts, farming, and being Jewish in pre-World War II Germany. The author was an associate of the famous writer Robert Graves who translated the book with Laura Riding. Graves and Riding started the Seizen Press in 1926. 278 pages with a frontispiece photo of the author. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Some light foxing and toning to paper. An extremely uncommon book.

Deya Majorca and London: Seizin Press and Constable, 1936. Translated by Laura Riding and Robert Graves. Spot staining to front board, light wear to corners, spine ends and edges, closed edges browned, list of publishers' books to fep, frontispiece - black/white photograph of author, light spotting to title page, pp clean, text clear to read, binding firm.. First Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Good. 12mo.

Deiá, Majorca: The Seizin Press, for Constable & Co., Ltd, London,, 1936. First edition, first impression, of this memoir by a German art-dealer who fled Nazi Germany and became Graves's neighbour in Majorca, "a charming, individual and informative book which never received its due" (Seymour-Smith, p. 245). Graves and Riding worked from a literary rendering prepared by Kenneth Gay (born Karl Goldschmidt), Graves's personal secretary, companion and editor on Majorca. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. With photographic frontispiece. Slight bump to foot of spine, a little rubbing to extremities, top edge a touch foxed, else clean. A near-fine copy, in the bright jacket, price-clipped, spine panel toned, spine ends nicked and creased, small chips to one tip, else a sharp, bright example. Higginson, A45. Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves: His Life and Works, Bloomsbury, 1995.