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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo in white color illus DJ, 375 pages, front color illustration, 21 cm. Very gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, very gentle bumping to two corners, extremely mild rubbing to two corners, very gentle rubbing to spine foot, exceedingly mild rubbing to spine head, faint soiling and spotting (and sunning) to fore-edges, pale sunning to title page, pale soiling to few front endpapers, sunned DJ spine, two quarter inch clipped tears to DJ, almost one inch clipped tear to rear DJ-top edge, pale coffee stain to front DJ, light soiling to price-clipped DJ, else very good in good DJ. in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. The story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Orphans -- Fiction, Adventure.