The Wallet of Kai Lung (signed)
by BRAMAH, Ernest
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Quinton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Grant Richards, 1923. 1st edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, no 10 out of 200 such copies. Signed by the author. Original grey cloth with quarter-bound cream linen spine slightly mottled, gilt title lettering on black spine label, pages with sporadic spotting, endpapers a little browned. Bramah was an extremely skilful writer, in several different fields, and this was the first of his many succesful tales about the wandering Chinese storyteller, Kai Lung.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shellhouse Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PSHB7733
- Title
- The Wallet of Kai Lung (signed)
- Author
- BRAMAH, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grant Richards, 1923
- Keywords
- Fiction
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