First edition. Octavo, pp 250. Dark brown cloth covered hard boards. No dust jacket. This is Coates’ best known and most highly regarded book, his memoirs of time spent as a Special Magistrate in the New Territories in the 1950’s. A highly entertaining and informative book which helps to explain the nuances of life in Hong Kong ’s more rural areas and outlying islands.

The book is in Near Fine condition, just a small knock to the top corners of the boards. The jacket is Very good, some small wear at spine ends and turn-ins.