CONGO KITABU.

by Chiang Yee

1938. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. Front free endpaper missing. Extensive pencil inscription to rear free endpaper. Some pencil marginalia and underlining. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1938

About the author

Chiang Yee (simplified Chinese: 蒋彝; traditional Chinese: 蔣彝; pinyin: Jiǎng Yí; Wade–Giles: Chiang I; 19 May 1903 – 26 October 1977), self-styled as "The Silent Traveller" (哑行者), was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher.

The success of The Silent Traveller in London (1938) was followed by a series of books in the same vein, all of which he illustrated himself.