presentation copy
RANSOME, Arthur.
The Chinese Puzzle.
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1927.
Ransome was sent to China by the Manchester Guardian in 1926. In his preface to The Chinese Puzzle, David Lloyd George wrote 'Our interest and China's interests are identical. We both want peace and we both want trade.... This is in substance... the view that Mr. Ransome expresses'.
Previously in the collection of the Ransome collector John Cowen, this copy was sold at Bonhams in 2015 along with another copy in the scarce jacket; it appears that the purchaser married the jacket to the presentation copy.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; light spotting to prelims and endpapers; publisher's pale sage cloth, black lettering to spine, boards lightly marked, with the buff dust-jacket (supplied from another copy) printed in red, jacket slightly toned and chipped, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce work.
Stock code 107740
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The Chinese Puzzle.
WOOLF, Virginia.
Orlando: A Biography.
1928.
A signed, limited edition copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicholson, Vita Sackville-West's son, declared Orlando to be 'the longest love letter in literature', 1928
£6,500.00
WOOLF, Virginia; STRACHEY, Lytton.
Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters.
1956.
A handsome first edition of Virginia Woolf anf Lytton Strachey Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.
£225.00
PLATH, Sylvia.
Two Uncollected Poems.
1980.
A limited edition copy of The Uncollected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
£325.00
