Author: BAIRNSFATHER Captain Bruce
Title: Laughing through the Orient. With 'Old Bill'. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
Description: Hutchinson,, [1933]. 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.

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