NEWBY Eric — Slowly down the Ganges. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Hodder & Stoughton, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates, 16 monochrome plates and 3 maps (one double-page), neat inscription (in addition to author's) on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, top and fore-edge lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LENGTHY SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER:. 'I hope that you will not find as many holes to pick in this book as we found in the bottom of the boat in which were supposed to travel down the Ganges.' The dustwrapper of this title is notoriously prone to browning and chafing due to poor lamination; there is virtually no trace of this here. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.