BAYLEY, Viola (author). Marcia Lane FOSTER (illustrator). Kashmir Adventure. London; J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1957.

8vo.; original mid-green cloth gilt in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 5-151; with bold lithographed frontispiece in duotone and bold black and white illustrations throughout; externally clean and bright with a 2mm puncture hole to centre of spine and a vertical crack to upper cover beneath the dustwrapper flap, which is expertly camouflaged to the pastedown and very unobtrusive to upper board; internally fresh and crisp throughout, in a very good, unclipped jacket (10s 6d) with dusting and light foxing to lower panel and mild fading to spine.

First edition. An exciting early mystery in Bayley’s “Adventure Series” set against the authentically described lotus-lakes of Kashmir and the Himalayan mountains.

Viola Bayley (1911-1997) from Rye, Sussex, when in her early twenties travelled to Lahore to visit an uncle who was a high court Judge and met and married Vernon Thomas Bayley (CMG, OBE) of the Indian Police.  Her love of travel and her experiences as an expatriate gave her a great understanding of foreign regions, which contributed to this, her best-known series, which numbered fifteen in total, including “Caribbean Adventure”; “Adriatic Adventure”; “Jersey Adventure” and “Welsh Adventure”.