THE FORBIDDEN BOUNDARY AND OTHER STORIES

by B. L. Putnam Weale, Bertram Lenox Simpson

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. Octavo, original decorated blue cloth, front cover stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Eight stories set mostly in the Far East, exploring various cultural conflicts. He gives us the atmosphere of the Far East, which he knows as few Anglo-Saxons know it, and yet he preserves his detachment of spirit as Loti and Lafcadio Hearn do not. He pictures

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