Laughing through the Orient. With ‘Old Bill’
BAIRNSFATHER, Captain Bruce
[First UK Edition.]
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
Published: Hutchinson, [1933]
Stock code: 50546
Price: £200.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (many full-page) by the author in the text, small neat signature on front paste-down; oatmeal holland, upper board blocked in black with sketch (repeated from text); backstrip lettered in black, fore-edges very lightly spotted else a near fine copy.
With 12pp publisher's catalogue at end. Part travelogue, part humour; published a year after the US edition. Compiled by Bairnsfather from notes taken during his world cruise of 1932. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Holt G.i.8.