SYKES, Christopher. Stranger Wonders. Tales of Travel. London: Longmans, Green and Co., [1937]. 8°. Half title, 9 plates by the author. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in red. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “For Anthony from Christopher. November 1963.” With 9 other books by the same author: High-Minded Murder (London, [1944]), Four Studies in Loyalty (London, 1946, dust-jacket), Answer to Question 33 (London, 1948, dust-jacket), Character & Situation. Six Short Stories (London, 1949, dust-jacket), Two Studies in Virtue (1953), A Song of a Shirt (1953), Dates and Parties (1955), Orde Wingate (1959) and Cross Roads to Israel (1965); all FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Anthony Hobson. Also included in the lot is an original autograph poem by John Davenport, dated 1955, entitled “Lines on Christopher Sykes.”