London: Macmillan, 1984. First edition. 8vo. 184 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, signed and dated (1994) by the author on the title page. Slight foxing to the endpapers and the jacket flaps, a speck of wear at the foot, the cloth.....

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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, [c.1869]. 197th thousand. 8vo. xli, (ii), 1139, (1) pp., bound without the advertisements. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine and the gilt lettered maroon label, marbled endpapers, the front pastedown featuring an attractive gilt lettered label presenting the.....

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