Mark Channing — King Cobra

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of Mark Channing's first Captain Colin Gray science-fiction adventure novel. The very scarce first edition, first printing of this work by Mark Channing, the pseudonym of Leopold Aloysius M. Jones.Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper with 'to my friend J. H. H. Gaule from Mark Channing' alongside the quotation "Greater love hath no man-!", dated June 1933.The first of four Captain Colin Gray novels by Channing, this is a lost race novel set in an underground stronghold in an unexplored region of Tibet.Undated; dated 1933 via the British Library.With thirty-four pages of advertisements to the rear.A thrilling tale. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with loss of cloth and closed tear to back strip tail. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .