BOOK ‘Kai Lung’s Golden Hours’ Ernest Bramah, 1939 Penguin Paperback, Good Condition. Intact, and back Spine is 98% perfect. Plus extra post to all NZ=$5.20, tracked. Preface by Hilaire Belloc, Publ: Penguin Books Limited UK, 1939, soft card cover, 282 yellowed pages. Bad Points: 1: Pencil inscription on first title page reads: ‘Hattie Cresswell, Kerikeri Central’. 2: Uniformly grimed edges and Spine outer. 3: Been in sun in cousin's bookcase since 1973: he is a bibliophile. Good Points: No other pencil, no pen, no curved corners. Spine keeps pages shut, rarely read. Good size script. This fantasy series of ancient China, is written by an English novelist, Ernest Bramah [add surname 'Smith' says Google]. The itinerant story-teller, Kai Lung, goes to jail because the agent, Ming-shu, tells his master, Mandarin Shan Tien, that treason has occurred. Throughout the paperback, Kai Lung relays many tales about dragons and spirits. The Mandarin lets him go free, to wander again, and do his outside cooking, assisted now by the pretty maiden Hwa-Mei. Excerpt, page 61: “’The night thickens, with every indication of a storm,’ remarked Hia pleasantly. ‘Yet that same impending flash of promised lightning tarries somewhat.’ ‘Truly is it written: ‘A gracious woman will cause more strife than twelve armed men can quell,’“ retorted Ning bitterly. ‘Not, perchance if one of them bares his nails?’ Thus she lightly mocked him, but always with a set intent, as a poised dragon-fly sips water yet does not wet his wings.” Paperback measures: 11.3cm x 18cm x 1.6cm. No cigarette. In Birkenhead.