The Seeds of Enchantment by Gilbert Frankau 1921

The Seeds of Enchantment
Gilbert Frankau
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921
364 pages

The front hinge is broken, the binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are tanning, and have scattered brown age spots and quite a few foxed areas. The front end papers and title page are foxed and a name is written in front. The cover is rubbed and edge worn and has some pencil marks on the front.  Acceptable. Hardcover

Being some attempt to narrate the curious discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant Rene de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo China
Chapter 1 - In which the reader makes acquaintance of three white men and a mystery girl - International Socialism . . . began Doctor Cyprian Beamish. His companion dipped a spoon to a plateful of that Mulligatawny soup which invariable commences Sunday's tiffin throughout the Federated Malay States, and drawled in the unmistakeable accents of Oxford University: "Too hot for Socialism, old man. Give it a rest."  It was hot, stifflingly so. Outside, Singapore City steamed under an equatorial rain-drizzle: moisture--clammy, blood thinning moisture--permeated the gloomy stucco-pillared tiffin room of the Hotel Europe.  (#00001555)