(#170246) TALES OF BENGAL by S. B. Banerjea[.] Edited by Francis Henry Skrine[,] Indian Civil Service (Retired). S. B. Banerjea, Satya Bhushan Bandyopadhyay.

TALES OF BENGAL by S. B. Banerjea[.] Edited by Francis Henry Skrine[,] Indian Civil Service (Retired). London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-xxxi [xxxii] [1] 2-187 [188: blank], original brown cloth, front panel stamped in dark brown, spine panel stamped in dark brown and gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. "Seventeen sketches with solid ethnographic details" (Gupta), mostly crime stories. Includes an important 25-page "introduction" by Skrine who revised Banerjea's stories which were "written for his own countrymen, and needed extensive revision in order to render them intelligible to Western readers" while Skrine "preserved the author's spirit and phraseology." Gupta, India in English Fiction, 1800-1970 153. Hubin (1994), p. 46. Free endpapers a bit tanned, else a fine copy. (#170246).

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