Journey to the Orient

New York: New York University Press, 1972. First English Language Edition. Octavo with brown cloth boards and gilt spine title in yellow and blue pictorial jacket; 215 pages; illustrations; 23 cm A near fine copy; crisp, clean and tight; in very good jacket with mild shelfwear and slight rubbing to extremities, some dampstaining to spine and small chip to bottom right corner; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780814757529, 0814757529

"Previously untranslated into English, this nineteenth-century classic is one of Nerval's major prose-works and an important literary rediscovery. Nerval recounts his adventures in Cairo and Beirut, and retells some of the wonderful tales he heard related by professional story-tellers and others in the cafes of Constantinople and elsewhere. Voyage to the Orient brings to life a remarkable medley of characters, and through its rich dramatization of folklore and descriptive qualities affords a graphic evocation of the Middle East ambiance." --Jacket copy.