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Advertising leaflet for a new American children's bicycle.
Osaka? c1900. 19x33cm, printed in blue on brown paper. Rumpled, chipped and sometime laid down.
¶ As always, if someone complains about the condition my reply is, "Go find a better copy." And it is called a bicycle (jitensha) rather than tricycle (sanrinsha). Agents in other cities are named but headquarters are in Osaka with the phone number 1837. An expert in Japanese phone numbers might be able to tell us when the number 1837 was reached, giving us the earliest possible date for this.
¶ As always, if someone complains about the condition my reply is, "Go find a better copy." And it is called a bicycle (jitensha) rather than tricycle (sanrinsha). Agents in other cities are named but headquarters are in Osaka with the phone number 1837. An expert in Japanese phone numbers might be able to tell us when the number 1837 was reached, giving us the earliest possible date for this.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10910
AUD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 US$ 39.2 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 6203]
Keywords: graphic art advertising transport bicycles children c19th c20th Japan meiji
![Elephant advertisement., [Tenjiku Watari : Nama Daizo].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Elephant11101.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Tenjiku Watari : Nama Daizo].
Osaka, Tamaki Seishichi 1883 (Meiji 16) Woodcut broadside 37x55cm. Rather good.
¶ A kawaraban style advertisement for the great elephant show and a higher class - and grander - bit of art than the ones produced in Yokohama that I've seen, one dated 1875 and one 1883. 1863 was the year of the elephant in Japan, the great Indian elephant drew squillions of spectators and artists and printmakers went crazy. It wasn't the first elephant to arrive in Japan but it had been near 150 years since the last one. Apparently Raffles sent one in 1808 as a deal sweetener but it was refused and expelled - with a hundred bales of wheat from the shogun for the return journey. Just as well, while elephants had been celebrated in art for centuries, elephants in person didn't have long happy lives in Japan. The 1863 elephant went on tour after a spell in Tokyo but is our elephant the same one? Is it the same elephant who starred in Yokohama which, according to the unreliable and incongruent ages given on different prints, was too young? Certainly our elephant has progressed from being a drawcard by merely existing to being the star of a theatrical show.
¶ A kawaraban style advertisement for the great elephant show and a higher class - and grander - bit of art than the ones produced in Yokohama that I've seen, one dated 1875 and one 1883. 1863 was the year of the elephant in Japan, the great Indian elephant drew squillions of spectators and artists and printmakers went crazy. It wasn't the first elephant to arrive in Japan but it had been near 150 years since the last one. Apparently Raffles sent one in 1808 as a deal sweetener but it was refused and expelled - with a hundred bales of wheat from the shogun for the return journey. Just as well, while elephants had been celebrated in art for centuries, elephants in person didn't have long happy lives in Japan. The 1863 elephant went on tour after a spell in Tokyo but is our elephant the same one? Is it the same elephant who starred in Yokohama which, according to the unreliable and incongruent ages given on different prints, was too young? Certainly our elephant has progressed from being a drawcard by merely existing to being the star of a theatrical show.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11101
AUD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 396.75 US$ 424.65 | £UK 340.25 | JP¥ 67203]
Keywords: graphic art advertising hikifuda kawaraban c19th Japan modernism elephants entertainment performing arts theatre circus
![Advertising., [Megamimaru?].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Megamimaru10289.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Megamimaru?].
[193-?]. Three colour poster 47x28cm, horizontal fold in the middle.
¶ This elegant modern woman graciously advertises a complete treatment for women's uterine problems.
¶ This elegant modern woman graciously advertises a complete treatment for women's uterine problems.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10289
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.5 US$ 81.66 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 12924]
Keywords: graphic art advertising commercial posters c20th Japan modernism medicine
![Giichi Akita. [The entry used by Worldcat names him Hodo Akita]., [Sanpo Jikata Taisei].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Giichi9186.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sanpo Jikata Taisei].
Tokyo, Kitajima Junshiro &c 1837 (Tenpo 8). Five volumes (25x18cm) publisher's wrappers; 4,156 double folded leaves, numerous woodcut illustrations. A spot of worming in the first cover and a touch in another volume, a rather good set.
¶ First edition of this manual of land management and surveying, published at a troublesome time in Japanese history: the 1830s brought a movement, fiercely resisted by the authorities, towards the adoption of western science and technology and, relevant to this book in particular, a period of horrendous drought, famine and unrest in rural Japan. Land surveying was primarily concerned with taxation and, before the Meiji reforms, accurate measurement was not only unimportant but unwanted. The extent and value of land was a matter for negotiation. The intricacies of Japanese land surveying in the early modern period demand long learned essays - and after reading a couple I'm none the wiser - but what is clear is that this book is a major work in the history of rural engineering, survey and management. It was also problematic for the authorities: "problems in surveyor education were aggravated by government censorship. Bakufu officials did not want administrative uses of survey techniques discussed in public. Under the guise of 'respect authority; despise the people (kanson minpi),' the mysteries of official practice were not to be released to the public domain." (Brown: A Case of Failed Technology Transfer - Land Survey Technology in Early Modern Japan; 1998). The authorities did suppress or attempt to suppress the Sanpo Jikata Taisei; Brown refers us to the preface of the 1976 reprint of this book for details and I came across another reference that claimed the woodblocks were destroyed. This seems fairly scarce outside Japan; the title is well represented in western libraries but once we discard the 1976 reprint I found only two libraries with originals through Worldcat.
¶ First edition of this manual of land management and surveying, published at a troublesome time in Japanese history: the 1830s brought a movement, fiercely resisted by the authorities, towards the adoption of western science and technology and, relevant to this book in particular, a period of horrendous drought, famine and unrest in rural Japan. Land surveying was primarily concerned with taxation and, before the Meiji reforms, accurate measurement was not only unimportant but unwanted. The extent and value of land was a matter for negotiation. The intricacies of Japanese land surveying in the early modern period demand long learned essays - and after reading a couple I'm none the wiser - but what is clear is that this book is a major work in the history of rural engineering, survey and management. It was also problematic for the authorities: "problems in surveyor education were aggravated by government censorship. Bakufu officials did not want administrative uses of survey techniques discussed in public. Under the guise of 'respect authority; despise the people (kanson minpi),' the mysteries of official practice were not to be released to the public domain." (Brown: A Case of Failed Technology Transfer - Land Survey Technology in Early Modern Japan; 1998). The authorities did suppress or attempt to suppress the Sanpo Jikata Taisei; Brown refers us to the preface of the 1976 reprint of this book for details and I came across another reference that claimed the woodblocks were destroyed. This seems fairly scarce outside Japan; the title is well represented in western libraries but once we discard the 1976 reprint I found only two libraries with originals through Worldcat.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9186
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 213.75 US$ 228.66 | £UK 183.25 | JP¥ 36186]
Keywords: science technology political economy economics agriculture surveying trades c19th Japan Asia reform progress
Essay on the Construction of School-Houses, to which was awarded the prize offered by the American Institute of Instruction, August, 1831.
Boston, Hilliard Gray &c 1832. Octavo disbound; 66pp, two full page plans. Some spotting or browning but a pretty good copy.
¶ The first American work devoted to school buildings and their design. Alcott is not celebrated in architectural history, after all he was no architect but an educator, reformer and pamphleteer. But "the characteristic form of schoolhouses was established with the 1832 publication of William A. Alcott's 'Essay on the Construction of School-Houses'. Alcott stressed the importance of light, fresh air, and space in his designs." (Doggett and Wilson). Alcock was not dogmatic about the style of the building but he was about everything else, the site and landscaping, the timber for the floorboards and blackboards, the size and placing of each student's book box, the placing of coat pegs. All was to be healthy, rational, beneficial and beneficent. The American Institute of Instruction was itself new; this was the beginning of a new movement for universal education. Over the next few years these ideas spread, often in the briefest form: Alcock's plan and key. In 1839 the superintendent of schools in Michigan submitted Alcock's plan with few modifications to the legislature and this was in turn reprinted in a Connecticut journal.
¶ The first American work devoted to school buildings and their design. Alcott is not celebrated in architectural history, after all he was no architect but an educator, reformer and pamphleteer. But "the characteristic form of schoolhouses was established with the 1832 publication of William A. Alcott's 'Essay on the Construction of School-Houses'. Alcott stressed the importance of light, fresh air, and space in his designs." (Doggett and Wilson). Alcock was not dogmatic about the style of the building but he was about everything else, the site and landscaping, the timber for the floorboards and blackboards, the size and placing of each student's book box, the placing of coat pegs. All was to be healthy, rational, beneficial and beneficent. The American Institute of Instruction was itself new; this was the beginning of a new movement for universal education. Over the next few years these ideas spread, often in the briefest form: Alcock's plan and key. In 1839 the superintendent of schools in Michigan submitted Alcock's plan with few modifications to the legislature and this was in turn reprinted in a Connecticut journal.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8707
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 183.25 US$ 195.99 | £UK 157 | JP¥ 31017]
Keywords: architecture building design education schools c19th America children reform progress
The Lost Million.
New York, Dodd Mead 1913. Octavo publisher's green cloth with onlaid colour illustration. A couple of minute flaws to the onlay but an excellent, bright copy.
¶ First edition. An obscure, uncommon and ripe thriller with mysterious adventurers - male and female, mysterious charges, mysterious threats, exotic strangers, and mysterious, exotic, threatening strangers, all surrounding an ancient Egyptian bronze cylinder which contains a deadly secret. Hubin denotes Winthrop Alden to be the pseudonym of a distinguished author but can't help more. Winthrop Alden was a character in Henry van Dyke's 'The Ruling Passion' (1901) but there are real people with the name.
¶ First edition. An obscure, uncommon and ripe thriller with mysterious adventurers - male and female, mysterious charges, mysterious threats, exotic strangers, and mysterious, exotic, threatening strangers, all surrounding an ancient Egyptian bronze cylinder which contains a deadly secret. Hubin denotes Winthrop Alden to be the pseudonym of a distinguished author but can't help more. Winthrop Alden was a character in Henry van Dyke's 'The Ruling Passion' (1901) but there are real people with the name.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7966
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 107 US$ 114.33 | £UK 91.75 | JP¥ 18093]
Keywords: literature detective fiction thrillers c20th America mystery
The Stillwater Tragedy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1880. Octavo, excellent in publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt, red and black.
¶ First edition; classic detective fiction and an anti-labour novel, with a murdered corpse at the end of the first chapter and an unjustly suspected hero standing up to thuggish strike leaders. While barely inflammatory - the author and printer did not, after all, have to go into hiding - this novel did stir up more conversation than usual amongst his readers. His readers can't have been expected to take much exception to it: Twain wrote to Aldrich that he had enjoyed reading it in the notorious periodical of Howells and that Mrs Clemens was looking forward to it between baby feeds. The connections between Aldrich and the extreme anti-labor literature of the late 19th century are not hard to trace.
¶ First edition; classic detective fiction and an anti-labour novel, with a murdered corpse at the end of the first chapter and an unjustly suspected hero standing up to thuggish strike leaders. While barely inflammatory - the author and printer did not, after all, have to go into hiding - this novel did stir up more conversation than usual amongst his readers. His readers can't have been expected to take much exception to it: Twain wrote to Aldrich that he had enjoyed reading it in the notorious periodical of Howells and that Mrs Clemens was looking forward to it between baby feeds. The connections between Aldrich and the extreme anti-labor literature of the late 19th century are not hard to trace.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7971
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 107 US$ 114.33 | £UK 91.75 | JP¥ 18093]
Keywords: literature detective fiction thrillers c19th America reform labour mystery progress
![[Pliny]. ALLAIN, Eugene., Pline le Jeune et ses Heritiers.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Pliny5023.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Pline le Jeune et ses Heritiers.
Paris, Fontemoing 1901-2. Four volumes large octavo uncut in publisher's printed 'silk' wrapps; 608; 695; cccviii,518; 240pp, 128 illustrations, 20 maps or plans. Some wear to the wrappers
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 5023
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.75 US$ 98 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15508]
Keywords: classical history literature Rome
![ALLEN, Charles Bruce; Murata Fumio & Yamada Koichiro., [Seiyo Kasaku Hinagata].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Allen10644.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Seiyo Kasaku Hinagata].
Tokyo, Gyokuzando 1872 (Meiji 5). Four volumes 23x15cm publisher's wrappers with printed title labels. Illustrations through the text and full page plates - copper engravings. Labels rubbed and mildly chipped; a rather good copy.
¶ The first western architecture book published in Japan. I'm intrigued by the choice of the modest 'Cottage Building, or hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes' - one of Weale's utilitarian Rudimentary Treatises. Why not European grandeur? American mass production? Allen's small book first appeared in 1849-50 and remained in print, progressively updated, into the 20th century. This translation was made from the 1867, sixth edition. A sensible enough choice I guess, but when has sense played any part in the introduction of new ideas? Murata Fumio edited 'Seiyo Bunkenroku' (1869 &c) - based on the reports of the Takenouchi mission of 1862 - which focused on England so the connection is clear enough. That there was any significant group pushing for philanthropic reform this early in the Meiji restoration comes as a surprise to me; perhaps this book was chosen as a slap in the face to the opponents of westernisation and modernisation. Ostensibly it was a response to the 1872 Tokyo fire. Allen's book was given by an Englishman to the translator as useful for information on fire-proof buildings. Could it be that simple? Worldcat finds no copy outside Japan - Columbia apparently has a later reprint. A search of the specialist libraries I can think of found no more.
¶ The first western architecture book published in Japan. I'm intrigued by the choice of the modest 'Cottage Building, or hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes' - one of Weale's utilitarian Rudimentary Treatises. Why not European grandeur? American mass production? Allen's small book first appeared in 1849-50 and remained in print, progressively updated, into the 20th century. This translation was made from the 1867, sixth edition. A sensible enough choice I guess, but when has sense played any part in the introduction of new ideas? Murata Fumio edited 'Seiyo Bunkenroku' (1869 &c) - based on the reports of the Takenouchi mission of 1862 - which focused on England so the connection is clear enough. That there was any significant group pushing for philanthropic reform this early in the Meiji restoration comes as a surprise to me; perhaps this book was chosen as a slap in the face to the opponents of westernisation and modernisation. Ostensibly it was a response to the 1872 Tokyo fire. Allen's book was given by an Englishman to the translator as useful for information on fire-proof buildings. Could it be that simple? Worldcat finds no copy outside Japan - Columbia apparently has a later reprint. A search of the specialist libraries I can think of found no more.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10644
AUD 1500.00 [Appr.: EURO 915.5 US$ 979.97 | £UK 785 | JP¥ 155083]
Keywords: architecture building design c19th England Japan Asia reform progress utilitarianism pattern books meiji
What's Bred in the Bone. £1000 Prize Novel.
London, Tit-Bits 1891. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in gilt, ochre, red and black. Spine a touch darkened, minor signs of use; pretty good.
¶ First edition of this maelstrom of a thriller. "What's Bred in the Bone is what you can recommend to a friend .. who .. likes his novels hot and strong," said Longman's Magazine and the reviewer in The Speaker, pausing for breath at the end of a racing list of incidents, tells us that "this is only the second chapter and Mr Grant Allen has enough incident to last him for forty-five chapters." Murder, disaster, fraud, identical twins of unknown predigree who share the same toothaches, the diamond fields of South Africa and young English lady with an atavistic urge for snake dancing ... many of these things, but not all, are down to the influence of heredity. The rest are down to the author. This novel was a hit so it's easy enough to find delapidated copies and reprints but not decent original copies.
¶ First edition of this maelstrom of a thriller. "What's Bred in the Bone is what you can recommend to a friend .. who .. likes his novels hot and strong," said Longman's Magazine and the reviewer in The Speaker, pausing for breath at the end of a racing list of incidents, tells us that "this is only the second chapter and Mr Grant Allen has enough incident to last him for forty-five chapters." Murder, disaster, fraud, identical twins of unknown predigree who share the same toothaches, the diamond fields of South Africa and young English lady with an atavistic urge for snake dancing ... many of these things, but not all, are down to the influence of heredity. The rest are down to the author. This novel was a hit so it's easy enough to find delapidated copies and reprints but not decent original copies.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10813
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 244.25 US$ 261.32 | £UK 209.5 | JP¥ 41355]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th England
Darstellung der Neuen Entdeckungen uber die Electricitat und den Magnetismus von Oerstedt, Arago, Ampere, H. Davy, Biot, Erman, Schweigger, de la Rive u.f.w. ... aus dem Franzsischen.
Leipzig 1822. Octavo contemporary (or original?) marbled boards (spine quite rubbed but all perfectly solid and very acceptable); [2],118pp and two folding plates. A bit of spotting but a very good, fresh copy.
¶ First published in the same year in Paris (Expose des Nouvelles Decouvertes sur l'Electricite et le Magnetisme), this seems to be the only contemporary translation of this quite significant little book. Oerstedt made the basic discovery in the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1820 and Ampere then "not only evolved the complete explanation of all the electro-magnetic phenomena observed before him, but predicted many hitherto unknown" (Mottelay).
¶ First published in the same year in Paris (Expose des Nouvelles Decouvertes sur l'Electricite et le Magnetisme), this seems to be the only contemporary translation of this quite significant little book. Oerstedt made the basic discovery in the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1820 and Ampere then "not only evolved the complete explanation of all the electro-magnetic phenomena observed before him, but predicted many hitherto unknown" (Mottelay).
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7739
AUD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 763 US$ 816.64 | £UK 654 | JP¥ 129236]
Keywords: science physics electricity magetism France c19th
The Newspaper Press, in part of the last century and up to the present period of 1860. The recollections of James Amphlett, who has been styled the father of the press, extending over a period of sixty years in connexion with newspapers, London and the country.
London, Whittaker; Shrewsbury, Wardle 1860. Octavo publisher's cloth with printed paper spine label (mildly used); [8],149pp and an inserted two page leaf announcing the death of the author in July 1860. A few spots to outer pages, quite good. A copy that has been proofed, up to page 27 at least, neatly and professionally corrected in pencil. As the author was dead we must presume this was the work of another newspaper man who just couldn't help himself.
¶ Only edition of this scarce book, a scattered compendium of memoir and odds and ends. It starts with first hand recollections of the Birmingham riots when our author was part of a "little squad" of curious boys following the action. He took part in the plundering of Priestley's house to the extent of a small bottle of quicksilver. From there we go to the press and his brushes with, it seems, everyone of fame or infamy from the regency onwards.
¶ Only edition of this scarce book, a scattered compendium of memoir and odds and ends. It starts with first hand recollections of the Birmingham riots when our author was part of a "little squad" of curious boys following the action. He took part in the plundering of Priestley's house to the extent of a small bottle of quicksilver. From there we go to the press and his brushes with, it seems, everyone of fame or infamy from the regency onwards.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9134
AUD 135.00 [Appr.: EURO 82.5 US$ 88.2 | £UK 70.75 | JP¥ 13957]
Keywords: social history trades journalism literature c18th c19th England newspapers
A Poet's Bazaar. From the Danish ... by Charles Beckwith, Esq.
London, Bentley 1846. Three volumes publisher's red cloth decorated in blind (the first volume rebacked with the original pine preserved); frontispiece portrait. Some minor flaws and signs of use (a corner torn from one leaf well away from the text is the worst I can see); a pretty good set from the Andersen collection of biographer and buff Eiler Hoeg with appropriate bookplates.
¶ First English edition. Travels south and east through Europe to Greece and Constantinople. 1846 was Andersen's breakthrough year in England; three translations of his tales and this appeared. He was deeply unhappy with Mary Howitt, the first into print, but apparently tolerant enough of the rest. Howitt translated from German which is probably why this specifies that Beckwith (Beckwith Lohmeyer in full, an English resident of Copengagen who taught Andersen English) worked from the original.
¶ First English edition. Travels south and east through Europe to Greece and Constantinople. 1846 was Andersen's breakthrough year in England; three translations of his tales and this appeared. He was deeply unhappy with Mary Howitt, the first into print, but apparently tolerant enough of the rest. Howitt translated from German which is probably why this specifies that Beckwith (Beckwith Lohmeyer in full, an English resident of Copengagen who taught Andersen English) worked from the original.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8839
AUD 850.00 [Appr.: EURO 518.75 US$ 555.31 | £UK 444.75 | JP¥ 87880]
Keywords: travel literature c19th Denmark Europe near east association
The Scientific Papers ... with a memoir by P.G. Tait and A. Crum Brown.
London, Macmillan 1889. Octavo publisher's cloth (wear to the corners); lxiv,514pp, portrait and six plates (four folding). A rather good, bright copy inscribed by 'Mrs Andrews', undoubtedly his widow.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8689
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.75 US$ 98 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15508]
Keywords: science chemistry physics medicine c19th England association
![ANSTEY, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]., A Bayard From Bengal. Being some account of the magnificent and spanking career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, Esq. B.A., Cambridge, by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., Calcutta University, ...](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Anstey9836.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A Bayard From Bengal. Being some account of the magnificent and spanking career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, Esq. B.A., Cambridge, by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., Calcutta University, ...
London, Methuen 1902. Octavo publisher's cloth with mounted illustration; eight plates by Bernard Partridge, 40pp publisher's list dated August 1902. A touch of browning and minor signs of use, a rather good copy.
¶ First edition of this spanking example of comedy that can no longer be funny; a slur from the caption on the frontispiece to the very last word. Anstey specialised in fish out of water - or stranger in a strange land - situation comedy, often fantastic, and I get him mixed up with his imitator with a parallel pseudonym, R. Andom who specialised in identity exchange. Here we follow the adventures of our Indian hero in Oxford and highish society as portrayed by a fellow Anglophile and drawn by a last minute stand in for the desired Royal Academician, whose ignorance of things British needs constant correction. All this sparked a letter to the Spectator from an Andra Singha in September 1902 complaining that Anstey's mockery of Indian writings in English was too easy a target, tired and misguided. Anstey's mockery of Indians themselves was not worth tackling.
¶ First edition of this spanking example of comedy that can no longer be funny; a slur from the caption on the frontispiece to the very last word. Anstey specialised in fish out of water - or stranger in a strange land - situation comedy, often fantastic, and I get him mixed up with his imitator with a parallel pseudonym, R. Andom who specialised in identity exchange. Here we follow the adventures of our Indian hero in Oxford and highish society as portrayed by a fellow Anglophile and drawn by a last minute stand in for the desired Royal Academician, whose ignorance of things British needs constant correction. All this sparked a letter to the Spectator from an Andra Singha in September 1902 complaining that Anstey's mockery of Indian writings in English was too easy a target, tired and misguided. Anstey's mockery of Indians themselves was not worth tackling.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9836
AUD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 91.75 US$ 98 | £UK 78.5 | JP¥ 15508]
Keywords: literature fiction humour c20th England India race racism
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