TOWARDS ANGKOR: In the Footsteps of the Indian Invaders. by Wales, H. G. Quaritch - (1937).

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1937)., (1937).. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY H. G. QUARITCH WALES - Octavo, brown cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. The spine & extremities are faded & there is a small, narrow stain along the top edge of the front cover with the top corner slightly bumped & frayed. The dust jacket is chipped with several pieces out, including a large piece out of the top edge of the front panel. There is a tear and creasing to the lower half of the front panel. 248 & [1] pages. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece & maps. There is a glue stain at the top of the front endpaper with light offsetting from a book label to the front endpaper & half-title. Good in a fair dust wrapper.

First edition.

With an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband, Chairman of the Greater-India Research Committee.

Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and signed "H. G. Quaritch Wales". The gilt-decorated leather book label of renowned collector Howard Lehman Goodhart is mounted on the front pastedown.

Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales [1900-1981] was Field Director of the Greater-India Research Committee. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Queen's College Cambridge. He immediately embarked on a career in Southeast Asia, entering the service of the Siamese Government where he was an adviser to King Rama VI and King Rama VII from 1924-1928. The book at hand is based on two archaeological expeditions which he made in 1934-35 and 1936. In the first, he investigated the overland route by which Indian influence spread to the Pacific Ocean. In the second, he discovered vestiges of the original Hindu art which culminated in Angkor.