Indian After-Dinner Stories, Volume II by Ayyar, A. S. Panchapakesa - 1927

Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 171 pages. 120 short tales and anecdotes, collected in one of the earliest examples of Indian fiction in English. This is a sequel to an 1925 collection with the same name. Widely cited in the critical literature on the history of Indian fiction. Very scarce. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a good-only dust jacket. The jacket is dampstained on the back panel and has loss at the spine ends and corners. With a small blank label on the spine. Despite the defects, a very rare surviving jacket. [JSP02] First Edition