Walter e traprock pseud george s chapell (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. First edition. Hardcover in gray linen cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. xv+ 146 pp. plus 4 pp. of publisher's ads. Illustrated with 17 photographic plates of humorous staged scenes and a map (which is the endpaper design by Rockwell Kent). Very good with some wear at the spine ends and one bumped tip; some foxing to the frontis and a 1921 Christmas gilt inscription on the half-title page. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Satirical travelogue that pokes fun at the then-very popular South Sea travel books, memoirs and novels. This was the first in a series of such books authored by Chappell, such as "Around Russia On Roller Skates" that satirized the south Sea travel books then in vogue by authors such as Maugham, Waugh, O'Brian, Beebe, and others. …