THE BRIDGE OF DISTANCES

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with black titles to the spine, in the Stan Terry illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips, the cloth is bright and fresh. The contents, spotted to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and a paper price label over the publisher's price of 7/- to the spine. Scarce in the dustwrapper.

The author's second novel, for the most part set in China, following her science fiction / lost race novel 'The Perfect World'. Ned Brooks writing in 'It Goes on the Shelf 21' (January 2000) describes the novel thus "The first part of it is a standard racist pulp adventure involving two British rogues stealing a princess and a priceless jewel from a noble Chinese family in 1873—and the second part is theosophy about the karmic consequences of this adventure in 1923. Much better written than 'The Perfect World', but not as much fun!".