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STORY BOOK SIGNED BY MULK RAJ ANAND


Estimate: Rs 25,000-Rs 35,000 ( $395-$550 )


TITLE: The Lost Child and other stories
AUTHOR: Mulk Raj Anand
PUBLISHER: J. A. Allen & Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1934
EDITION: First
BINDING: Card covers with French flaps
NO.OF PAGES: pp. 20 + Frontispiece
SIZE:
Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 11.2 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm

MULK RAJ ANAND [1905-2004]
Anand's first work of fiction with Eric Gill engraving/ Edition was of 200 copies

The Front flap has the printed line: 'This edition is limited to 200 copies of whichthis is number 168.' Below this, full signatures of Mulk Raj Anand. The corrections in the opening page of text are in Anand???s handwriting.

The frontispiece, showing an Indian serpent charmer, is by Eric Gill [1882-1940], one of the great British artists and print-makers of the last century.

Anand's earliest work of fiction, published a year before his classic novel Untouchable. The book has 3 stories.