MANUSCRIPT. – [Charles James HANKINSON.] ‘Clive Holland’. Mousmé. A Japanese

MANUSCRIPT. – [Charles James HANKINSON.] ‘Clive Holland’. Mousmé. A Japanese Idyll. [N.p.: circa 1900.] 200pp., manuscript, 8vo (197 x 154mm.) 200 leaves written recto only in a mostly legible black ink, numerous ink amendments. (Mild toning.) Original limp morocco, gilt lettering to spine (lower hinge weakened, extremities rubbed). Note: this is the original manuscript of the book Clive Holland published in 1895 as ‘My Japanese Wife’. He would use the title ‘Mousmé’ for a novel published six years later, in 1901. Holland wrote numerous novels and travel books. He was also a photographer and friend of Thomas Hardy. – And a further twenty-four volumes by Clive Holland, including fifteen signed or inscribed by the author (‘Mousmé’, 1901, 8vo, and ‘My Japanese Wife’, 1895, 12mo) and an original photograph of Thomas Hardy taken by Clive Holland (25).

Estimate:£60

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