Ernest Bramah: Bibliography

The Wallet of Kai Lung

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A.3.ab Wal-B1 (A) First American Issue 1900

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DISCUSSION

Full Title:

The Wallet of Kai Lung

Publication:

Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1900

Binding:

Light green pictorial cloth, 7⅞ inches x 5¾ inches; 337 pp. followed by two L.C. Page catalogs, 7 & 12 pp.

Spine: The | Wallet | of | Kai Lung | Ernest | Bramah | L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY

Front Cover: The Wallet | of Kai Ling | decoration of a woman in oriental dress (actually Japanese, as earlier bibliographers pointed out) in black and yellow.

(see image above).

Notes:

First American edition, from imported sheets of the first printing with a cancel title. page. Except for the publisher's imprint at the bottom of the spine, the binding is identical to the first Grant Richards issue.