Hayes (Joy, illustrator) Babujee writes home…
£75
London, Philip Allan, 1935.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
In stock
Cloth slightly sunned at spine ends; jacket worn with loss at spine ends and fore corners.
Illustrations by Joy Hayes.
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