Ernest Bramah: Bibliography

The Wallet of Kai Lung

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A.3.d Wal-F1 (A) Second American Printing 1923

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DISCUSSION

Full Title:

The Wallet of Kai Lung by ERNEST BRAMAH

Publication:

New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. (1923)

Binding:

Orange cloth, blue paper spine label; pastedown illustrations on both covers; 8ΒΌ inches x 6 inches

Spine: [blue paper label lettered in white] THE |WALLET |OF | KAI LUNG | ERNEST | BRAMAH

Front cover:[lettered in white over illustration] The WALLET of | KAI LUNG | ERNEST BRAMAH

Rear cover: illustration

(see image above).

Notes:

Dust jacket and both covers fully illustrated by Theodore Nadejen, who is one of my personal favorites of the illustrators working in the 1920s and 30s. The splendid front cover is one of his most often reproduced works.