Douglas (Norman) How About Europe?
£250
Some Footnotes on East and West
London, Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First trade edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A work prompted by Douglas’s reading of Katherine Mayo’s Mother India (1927), a polemical indictment of Indian civilisation: Douglas’s response is a characteristically acerbic defence of European cultural values… Excellent jacket concept.
In stock
Some foxing; cloth slightly darkened at spine; a little minor rubbing to jacket but really a very attractive example.
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