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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES. ALL BOOKS TARIFF FREE TO USA.
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES. ALL BOOKS TARIFF FREE TO USA.
Vintage hardcover book titled 'The Asiatics' by Frederic Prokosch, featuring a cream-colored cover with green line-art illustrations and bold black lettering, photographed on a white background.

The Asiatics, Frederic Prokosch, Harper & Brothers, 1935 Hugh Walpole's Brackenburn bookplate.

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$169.00 - $169.00
$169.00
$169.00 - $169.00
$169.00
Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics was his first novel and the work which established his literary reputation, presenting the episodic journey of a young American travelling across an exotic and often threatening Asia from the Middle East towards China. Blending adventure, travel narrative and dreamlike invention, Prokosch created an imagined Asia largely without having visited the places he described, yet the novel was widely admired for the richness and atmosphere of its landscapes. Published in 1935, it became an international success and was awarded the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse. This stated first edition has particularly appealing literary provenance, coming from the personal library of the novelist and noted book collector Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) at Brackenburn, his Lake District home, and bearing his distinctive gilt monogram bookplate.

The Asiatics, by Frederic Prokosch.

Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1935. Stated first edition. Printed in the United States of America. Manufactured by the "Haddon Craftsmen".

A good (plus) black cloth hardback with elaborate gilt title design to spine. Covers with some light wear and blind stamped design motif to vertical edge of front cover. With its original dustjacket - not price-clipped. The jacket is of gilt metallic background - now faded to silver on spine. The jacket has some significant wear with nibbles to extremities and losses to head and tail of spine. Flaps with some creases.

Of principal interest is the bookplate of Hugh Walpole showing that this came from his personal library at Brackenburn, his Lake District home. The bookplate is a burgundy leather-style paper lozenge with gilt monogram and is found on the inside front cover. 

The book has pictorial endpapers. Some light spotting to free endpapers at each end of the book. Text pages are clean and bright throughout. Some dust toning to top edge. 

Text in English.

(Prelims) + 423pp + (1) printer's information.

Weight approximately 590g.

Dimensions: Approximately 211mm high x 148mm wide x 37mm deep.