The Far-Distant Oxus. Introduction by Arthur Ransome.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 25 full-page illustrations by Whitlock, with further tailpieces, some very faint spotting, pp. 351, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge red now a little faded, faint spotting to edges, endpaper maps colour-printed, dustjacket chipped to extremities with a little rubbing, some very light soiling, very good. Inscribed on the half-title by one of the teenage authors of this adventure story: 'With love to Aunt Lilian, from Pam' - this being Lilian Slater, her father's sister. The novel is uncommon inscribed. In his Introduction, Ransome - whose work is a model for the schoolgirls' tale of adventure - recounts how they sent the manuscript to him in the hope that he might place it with his publisher, Cape.