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The Silent Traveller : A Chinese Artist in Lakeland.
Country Life, 1937.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Ivory coloured boards with black titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A very good+/near fine copy with very clean boards. Internally complete. Some light spotting to front endpapers. The very good dustwrapper is complete with a couple of tiny nicks to spine tips. Some dusting & toning to panels & spine.
The first in the Silent Traveller series and one of Yee's most personal and moving books. Yee visited the English Lakes in the 1930's. Amid the tranquility of Windermere and Crummockwater and the grandeur of Scafell, his search for peace contrasts starkly with the conflict in China and the impending European war. Illustrated with the author's monochromes of Lakeland scenes painted in the traditionl Chinese style with bruch, ink and soft paper.
Item #103715
Price: £125.00