... and the Rain My Drink by Suyin Han - 1956

xiii+306 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Third printing. And the Rain My Drink is a 1956 novel by Chinese-Flemish writer Han Suyin. Set against a backdrop of the Malayan Emergency of the late 1940s and 1950s, it describes the methods used by the British colonial authorities and by the left-wing rebels, and how individual lives were affected. Condition: Spine head frayed. Jacket corners and spin ends chipped with 1" x 2" loss to back head hinge, back edges chipped with tears else good to very good in like jacket.

New York: Signet, 1960. First Signet printing. Light creases to the spine. Slight wear to the edges.. Paperback. Good+.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1956. 319 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Jonathan Cape, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. First Edition. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription and mild scuffing to front pastedown. Mild water staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and fraying to ends. Moderate water stains to front board. Book has forward lean.

Jonathan Cape 1956.. hardcover met stofomslag

LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and marked, spine sunned, closed tear to rear board at the spine from the heel up by two thirds. front free endpaper missing, prelims lightly foxed. Clean throughout. Good. Good reading copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. 1ª Edição . Inteira de Tela. Bom / Good / Bon/Bom / Good. In-8º(204x142). 1 Vol. de 319-[1] pp. Inscribed by ancient owner.

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