"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

London: Francis Aldor, 1948. [Colonial History of South-East Asia] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.350. Publisher's tan cloth with maroon titles to spine and vignette illustration to upper board. Top edge brown. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Lambert, priced at 15s. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf, dated 1951. Light spotting to edges. Jacket lightly toned and marked, with light bruising and chipping to edges, and one large closed tear to spine repaired with tape to verso. Very good. Traveller, journalist and novelist, Hahn was an enormously prolific early Feminist author whose interests spanned every genre. First published in New York in 1946. Item #54529
Price: £150.00