Mission for Oliver hashish and introduce the Eastern readers

and introduce the Eastern readers to Western food

Hardback with the excellent dust jacket

all by Randolph Caldecott (1846-86)

A Fine copy of a signed first edition

Mission for Oliver hashish and introduce the Eastern readersLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1953. An adventure story set in 1805 about a drummer boy in the British Army sailing on a troopship to Sicily. With his cousin Polly also on the boat the adventures really start. First edition. Seven b w text illustrations and one in colour as the frontispiece. 190 pages. Top of text block stained red as issued. Back of jacket well browned, internally super clean and bright with owner's inked name and date 1955 to first front