Siamese White
COLLIS, Maurice
From Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 October 2016
From Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 October 2016
About this Item
First edition. Octavo, pp 322. Bound in snake-skin design cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Without the scarce jacket. Collis' first book, a biography of Samuel White an Englishman who visited Siam in the late 17th century and was appointed a mandarin by the Siamese King. In Very Good condition, spine cloth a bit tanned/faded. A surprisingly uncommon first edition by an author who was a colonial civil servant in Burma and Hong Kong and wrote widely on Asian subjects following this debut. Seller Inventory # B6134
Bibliographic Details
Title: Siamese White
Publisher: London: Faber and Faber
Publication Date: 1936
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
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