Buy this book on-line COLLIS, MAURICE: : Foreign Mud being an account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War that followedLONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,1997. ISBN 0571193013.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/j,1st edn thus.[Originally and first published in 1946 by same publisher. This 'Faber Library' edn/ issue first published 1997,so is a 1st edn thus.The 'Faber Library' series originated in the 1930s and was a uniform series of select titles that Faber published between 1930 and 1990.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,plain pale beige background with brown+black lettering designed dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain slate grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a dark grey+white striped headband and immaculate plain pale beige/cream endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xipp+3-285pp [paginated] includes verso of contents list/table,illustrations+maps+plans lists/tables,publisher's note,sections I-VI (1 - 6 comprising an introductory,and 9,14,10,4 and 4 chapters respectively,16pp contemporary b/w illustration facsimile reproductions,authorities and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,title page,a dedication reverse of contents lists/tables,Introductory+Chapter separator pages and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book.
This edn is No. 26 of 30 titles (so far and then 1997) with SASSOON's 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' as No. 1 and GARRISON KEILLOR's 'Lake Wobegon Days' as No. 30. Like the original 'Faber Library' of the 1930s, 'typography,paper,binding and general format have been very carefully planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf, no less than their convenience as travelling companions,comfortable to the reader's eye and hand.'
'Foreign Mud' was opium,smuggled into China in the early nineteenth century by British and other Western ships while their governments looked the other way.The merchants saw it as a fair trade, especially because China refused to open her markets to the world.To the Chinese court,however,it was an outrage: an affront to the dignity of the Celestial Empire by unruly foreign Barbarians.At a time when the British were determined to force their way into every market of the world,and the Chinese retained their centuries-old aloofness,war was inevitable.
First published in 1946,Maurice Collis's elegant and colourful account of the Opium War is now regarded as a masterpiece.In writing that is intimate,lively,full of comedy and ironic contrasts,Collis gives a fascinating account of this strange and highly intricate trade,and of the miscomprehension (but also the strange similarities) between the two arrogant nations.
Maurice Stewart Collis was born in 1889,the son of an Irish solicitor.He wrote over twenty books,including volumes of autobiography, biography,travel writing, novels,histories and three plays.He died in 1973.
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