[Signed] [First Edition] Honourable and Peculiar Ways Peh...

The first edition of this interesting perspective on life in England, in the scarce dust wrapper and signed by the author. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. The first edition of the work in the scarce original unclipped dustwrapper. With twelve illustrations by Harold W. Hailstone. Collated complete. Hailstone was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who served as an official war artist. A humourous book of Chinese impression of England, with a foreword by Ernest Bramah, author of the Max Carrados series. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in lovely condition with just minor shelf wear to the extremities. Dust wrapper is smart with evidence of worming resulting in loss. Handling marks to the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with marginal age toning and the odd spot. Offsetting to endpapers. Near Fine

Estimate:£509.92

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