The underworld of the East being eighteen years' actual experiences of the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago

by James S. Lee

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First edition

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1935 . First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, 1 , 278; publisher's red cloth; bookplate and ownership signatures of J. W. Pinkston, plates toned and a little wavy, dust jacket price-clipped, soiled and with some shallow chipping, head of jacket spine torn with tape repair; good. A drug memoir of the author's youth spent travelling between 1894 and 1910. For eighteen years Lee travelled the world investigating the drug habit

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