Author: BROWN, IRVING
Title: Gypsy Fires in America - A Narrative of Life Among the Romanies of the United States and Canada
Description: Harper & Brothers, 1924.. Hardcover . Hardback, Octavo, appx 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, dark orange titling and graphic on black cloth covers, xiv + 244 pages, VG+/no dj. Tight binding, exterior quite nice, very clean and hardly any signs of wear at all. FFEP vintage ownership name in fountain pen o/w very nice interior throughout. 16 photographic plates scattered throughout including frontispiece. Two facing pages have a narrow area of very light tanning from a folded 1928 newspaper article laid-in ("Courtships Launched as Bands Gather on Minnesota Bottoms" which concerns Gypsy marriages & father-daughter relationships, with the Minnesota bottoms referring to an area along the Minnesota River probably about 10 to 15 miles south of downtown Minneapolis). Very Good.

Keywords: American History Nomads Nomadic Minorities Cultural Anthropology