Balfour (Frederic H.) Austin and his Friends
£250
London, Greening & Co., 1906.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in gilt.
A scarce title, and a quietly distinctive supernatural novel by Balfour (1846–1909), a British sinologist, editor and novelist who spent much of his career in Shanghai, where he served as editor of the North China Daily News and other publications. The novel concerns a lame teenage boy surrounded by friendly ghosts, who ultimately joins his dead mother in Heaven.
In stock
Internally very good; cloth slightly mottled to lower cover.
Bleiler p.14; not in Reginald.
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