China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. With Some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam, with Nearly One Hundred Illustrations Alpine London: Chatto & Windus

London: Chatto & Windus

A near fine copy of this classic Greene Secret Service novel set in Cuba and adopted for film in 1959 by Carol Reed starring Alec Guinness as Wormold

colour frontispiece of the author (painted by Henry Lamb in 1926) and a folding map of Guiana opposite p196

Paris: Norma

Patterned paper covered boards

China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. With Some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam, with Nearly One Hundred Illustrations Alpine London: Chatto & WindusLondon: Henry Bohn, 1853. First Edition. Medium 8vo (7. 5 x 5 ins); pp xx + [522] + [24] Bohm's book catalogue. Colour tinted map of China Empire and Japan as frontispiece, with tissue guard. Half title present. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title lettering to spine, tips of corners and edges of the spine a touch rubbed. An excellent copy with bright gilt. "Earlier portion of this work, to p265, which relates exclusively to China, was written by Miss