THE RETURN OF KAI LUNG

by Ernest Bramah, Ernest Bramah Smith

$50 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: Sheridan House, 1937 . Octavo, pp. 1-6 7-319 320: blank , original pumpkin cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained green. First U.S. edition. The fourth Kai Lung book. Published earlier in Britain as THE MOON OF MUCH GLADNESS 1932 . Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller who tells one of his tales whenever he gets into a tight spot like Scheherezade, as Ashley points out . Bramah's China

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