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The Wallet of Kai Lung
by Bramah, Ernest
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Cloth backed boards, leather spine label. Fine copy without dust jacket (some light mottling of spine)
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards, 1923. New edition, one of 200 large paper copies signed by the author. xii, 299 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth backed boards, leather spine label. Fine copy without dust jacket (some light mottling of spine). New edition, one of 200 large paper copies signed by the author. xii, 299 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Elegantly produced re-issue of Bramah's famed sequence of stories set in a China that ever was (originally published in 1900).
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 365053
- Title
- The Wallet of Kai Lung
- Author
- Bramah, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Xii, 299 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth backed boards, leather spine label. Fine copy without dust jacket (some light mottling of spine)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New edition, one of 200 large paper copies signed by the author
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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