THE SOCIETY OF THE TORTOISE MASK.
With Four Coloured Plates. Pp. [viii]+312(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 3 plates; demy 8vo; pictorial purple cloth, lettered in gilt & pale yellow and decorated in red, yellow & black, edges of boards lightly rubbed and top fore-corners faintly bruised, the spine slightly faded; top edges dark blue; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, hinges starting at a few points, a couple of short closed marginal tears, piece torn from top fore-corner pp. 285/6, occasional slight soiling, some foxing throughout; Cassell and Company, Ltd, London, n.d.[1921?]. First edition? *First published in 1921. Charles Gilson (1878-1943) served in China after the Boxer Rebellion and featured China in some of his fiction, including The Society of the Tortoise Mask.. Item #174780
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