Leaves from a Missionary's Notebook: The Adventures of Felix Littlejohn
London: Secker & Warburg (1929). sm. 4to. The first edition of this amusing parody of the slow corruption of a British missionary in a tropical paradise, with distinctly homoerotic undertones: "Sometimes Felix thought he would go mad- white wax flowers smelling of sweet death....hot moonlight, and hands and mouths...and mouths and mouths...." The book is entirely illustrated with the author's quite accomplished drawings and his holograph transcription of the text. With a printed dedication to E.M. Forster who encouraged Tennant in his early efforts at writing. The ballet impresario Boris Kochno's copy, with a warm inscription and a detailed drawing from the author on the endpaper, dated Paris, November, 1939. Very good in blue fabric boards, a bit darkened at edges, very good dust jacket with only a few small closed tears. Collection Boris Kochno, Sotheby's Monaco (1991) (lot 514). More