And China Lay Sleeping
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1938. Octavo, original red cloth with black spine lettering, 286 pp. Cloth thumbed, light spotting on back free-endpapers, otherwise a near-fine copy in a worn and chipped dust-jacket. First edition. Scarce. Julius Van Dyke was one of two pseudonyms used by British author Frederick Anthony Edwards. Set in ancient Peking (Beijing), Nadya Drury, a young English woman, inspired by her father's reputation as an explorer, decides to join her father in China. However, as time goes by, Nadya realises that her father Mark Drury, is far from the person she had imagined and his business has nothing to do with exploration but rather with the illegal sale of antiquities. Item #5138
Price (AUD): $120.00