The Thief's Journal first world war it was Grahame's fourth book

it was Grahame's fourth book and began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair

This was the first widely read book with first-hand information on Gypsies

Contemporary gift inscription in period ink hand to first free endpaper

photographer Mike Smith would often hear

The Thief's Journal first world war it was Grahame's fourth bookNew York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition, first printing, in English, translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman, with a forward by Jean Paul Satre. Originally published by Gallimard in Paris in 1949 as "Journal du Voleur". Original red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket, a couple of trivial blemishes, near fine. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A lovely copy of this seminal work of "outsider" literature, first