342p + 32p publisher's catalogue (Sept 1899), green cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine, silver and black floral design, inner hinges splitting and binding yielding in places, b/w frontispiece, edges a little grubby, top edge gilt, pages clean and unmarked, small colour frontispiece and title page from Collin's Edition inserted with note, very good
Bithia Mary (or May) Croker (née Sheppard, c. 1848-1920) was an Irish novelist, most of whose work concerns life and society in British India. Her 1917 novel The Road to Mandalay, set in Burma, was the uncredited basis for a 1926 American silent film, of which only excerpts survive. She was also a notable writer of ghost stories. Wikipedia