KAKEMONOS: TALES OF THE FAR EAST .. by Dawe, W[illiam] Carlton - 1897

New York and London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-217 [218: blank], original mustard yellow cloth, front panel stamped in brown, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, U.S. issue. Collection of nine short stories set in China and Japan. At least one ("On the Banks of the Menam") is criminous. "The Phantom Junk" is a rationalized ghost story. Dawe was an Australian and a prolific author of popular fiction. Part of the publisher's Keynote Series. Macartney and Miller, Australian Literature (1956), p. 141. Cloth a little dusty, some flaking of dye along spine edge, else a nice copy, internally fine, most pages unopened. (#128792)