The Wallet of Kai Lung
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
A collection of fantasy stories by English writer Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen.
Condition grading: Excellent Minus book in Good dust jacket. Ragged top of spine section to dust jacket. Spene section of dust jacket is grubby. Book has bright covers. Very light creases to book - one to bottom of front cover, two to top left corner of rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
A collection of fantasy stories by English writer Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen.
Condition grading: Excellent Minus book in Good dust jacket. Ragged top of spine section to dust jacket. Spene section of dust jacket is grubby. Book has bright covers. Very light creases to book - one to bottom of front cover, two to top left corner of rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
A collection of fantasy stories by English writer Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen.
Condition grading: Excellent Minus book in Good dust jacket. Ragged top of spine section to dust jacket. Spene section of dust jacket is grubby. Book has bright covers. Very light creases to book - one to bottom of front cover, two to top left corner of rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
