Iliana: Stories of a Wandering Race

New York: Boni and Liveright. Very Good+. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [nice tight clean book, light shelfwear and very minor deterioration to cloth along bottom edge, gilt lettering slightly rubbed on spine but strong and bright on front cover]. Eleven stories of gypsy life, by this Romanian-born author who spent much of his youth living among them, and drew upon that experience throughout his subsequent literary career. He once wrote: "There is not a gypsy in the world who cannot tell you who I am. I am a gypsy by choice and not by blood, by temperament and not race." .