THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG

by Ernest Bramah, Ernest Bramah Smith

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. 1923 . Octavo, original pictorial orange cloth with pictorial paper onlays. Second U.S. edition. The first Kai Lung book. 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 bears about the same amount of resemblance to the real China as Walter Scott's England of Ivanhoe bears to

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