Buy this book on-line HUGH CLIFFORD : Sally: A Study and Other Tales of the Outskirts. (INSCRIBED)William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1904
First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the half-title and dated the year after publication. 8vo. xi, 299 + xxxii publisher's catalogue at the rear. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board. The backstrip cloth lightly toned and with just a touch of wear to the backstrip ends and corner tips. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, probably as issued. A three-page foreword by the author precedes eight Malayan stories, all of which here make their first bookform appearance. Clifford arrived in Malay to take up a Civil Service post in 1883 at the age of seventeen; he spent twenty years socialising with the locals and studying their language and culture. He left in 1903 to take up a post in Trinidad and Tobago and published these stories a year later ("For I, who once was outcast in Asia, to-day am outcast from the East, and, behold, the East is claiming me as she never claimed me before!" - from the foreword). Uncommon, and much more so with his contemporary signature.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HUGH CLIFFORD : Sally: A Study and Other Tales of the Outskirts. (INSCRIBED). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, used books, libri antichi, livres anciens and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |