When the Going Was Good bestseller applied to the elucidation of

applied to the elucidation of Holy Writ

on the titlepage

With the illustrated dust-jacket

Signed Presentation inscription from the author to half-title page

in 1881 he suffered a paralysis to the right side of his body

When the Going Was Good bestseller applied to the elucidation ofLondon : Duckworth, 1946. First Edition in the rather tatty dust jacket. Original yellow publisher's cloth; 318 pages; colour frontispiece of the author (painted by Henry Lamb in 1926) and a folding map of Guiana opposite p196; top corner of front endpaper neatly snipped off. Jacket not price clipped but rubbed and chipped along the top edge and head and tail of the spine, spine also slightly toned; no marking or previous owner's names. An about VG