My Latin-American Diary

London, Great Britain: The Falcon Press, 1953. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. First Falcon Press Printing, London, 1953. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket. Translated by Frank Jackson with a Foreword by G. S. Fraser. Printed in Great Britain by Alcuin Press. Clean and unmarked blue cloth binding with black titles on spine. No edgewear. Shadow on front endpaper, otherwise internals are spotless, pages toned. Jacket has a green and white map of South America with red titles; generally clean, no markings, ragged and chipped around spine ends, chipped on upper edge. Price-clipped. Now has clear archival protective cover. This diary was written when Maurois visited Latin America, Columbia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, during which he recorded his observations and reflections. The interplay of European and Latin-American attitudes and approaches to post-war problems emerges clearly from Maurois' diary of his travels. Andre Maurois, b. 1885, d. 1967 (pen name of Emil Herzog), French biographer, novelist and essayist. 89 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. The Falcon Press, London, Great Britain