[ROSS, ALAN]. Time Was Away: A Notebook in Corsica. London: John Lehmann, 1948.
First edition. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (240 x 170 x 15 mm.). Pp. 189. Publisher's original yellow cloth with decoration to the spine. Illustrated throughout with colour and b&w drawings by John Minton. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Minor marks to cloth. Interior immaculate. Without a dust jacket. Scarce.
Notes: Time Was Away is a book about Corsica, the result of a close artistic collaboration between a poet and a painter. The book contains over fifty illustrations, including eight in full colour, portraits of famous Corsican historical figures, maps and a number of poems. "'It was rugged travel; the hotels where we stayed were basic and often dirty. We lived on bread, cheese, figs, pastis and wine. The bus journeys were slow and suffocating, with long stops for no particular reason. One day we would be languishing in the humid heat of an estuary, the next exhilarated by sweet mountain air, waking to forests and mountains. We never saw an English person, and hardly any French, except at Calvi and Ile-Rousse towards the end of our trip."
