White Python by Mark Channing, Signed (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. An uncommon to see science fiction novel by Mark Channing, a presentation copy to his friend J. H. H. Gaute. The first U.K. edition of this uncommon work.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'For my friend, J. H. H. Gaute, to whose careful readings of the M.S. of 'White Python', your many conversations regarding its form + destiny, this author owes more than he can here express, Mark Channing, Chelsea 13.4.34'. J. H. H. Gaute was an author who wrote 'Murderers' Who's Who'.The sequel to Mark Channing's novel 'King Cobra', 'White Python' follows immediately on from the discovery of Prester John's descendents living in an underground community in Tibet.Channing was the pseudonym of Leopold Aloysius M. Jones, a soldier who spent twenty years in India.Fifty-eight pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with a few minor marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.