Author: Ernest Bramah
Title: The Mirror of Kong Ho
Description: London, Chapman and Hall , 1905. First edition. Cloth. Uncommon first edition of this comical novel by Ernest Bramah. The first edition of this work, an uncommon volume. Ernest Bramah's amusing book containing a series of letters written by Kong Ho, a Chinese man visiting London in the twentieth century, who reports on the oddities and peculiarities of the West to his homeland. Bramah was a prolific author in the twentieth century. Known for his humorous work, he created the character of Kai Lung and inspired the dystopian work Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell with his book What Might Have Been. In the original publisher's full cloth binding, with illustration to front board. Externally generally sound with shelf wear, bumping to extremities of the boards, minor loss to head and tail of spine, boards faintly marked. Geoffrey Gulliford and library bookplate to front pastedown, pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding split to p. 240, held by two cords only. Pages generally clean throughout. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
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Title: The Mirror of Kong Ho
Description: London, Chapman and Hall , 1905. First edition. Cloth. Uncommon first edition of this comical novel by Ernest Bramah. The first edition of this work, an uncommon volume. Ernest Bramah's amusing book containing a series of letters written by Kong Ho, a Chinese man visiting London in the twentieth century, who reports on the oddities and peculiarities of the West to his homeland. Bramah was a prolific author in the twentieth century. Known for his humorous work, he created the character of Kai Lung and inspired the dystopian work Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell with his book What Might Have Been. In the original publisher's full cloth binding, with illustration to front board. Externally generally sound with shelf wear, bumping to extremities of the boards, minor loss to head and tail of spine, boards faintly marked. Geoffrey Gulliford and library bookplate to front pastedown, pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding split to p. 240, held by two cords only. Pages generally clean throughout. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: first editions uncommon books comic uncommon books None
Price: GBP 65.00 = appr. US$ 92.82 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 830A21
- Book number: 830A21
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