First English edition. 252pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends and corners; cloth fraying. Water damage to rear board at spine. Cocked. Foxing to text block edges, bottom untrimmed. 'Map' endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring occasional foxing. No dust jacket. 8vo. Translated from the Italian by Hilda Bonavia. Novel founded on the author's travels in Japan and Korea in the first decade of the century.
