NEWBY, Eric. The Last Grain Race. (London: Secker & Warburg [1956]). 8°. Half title, half tone frontispiece and plates, folding diagram at the end. Original dark blue cloth, charts on endpapers, dust-jacket with price clipped. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title. With 6 other books by Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (London, [1958]), Something Wholesale (London [1962]) and Slowly Down the Ganges (London [1966]), Love and War in the Apennines [1971], The Big Red Train Ride [1978] and A Traveller's Life [1982]; all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony, or Tanya and Anthony, Hobson.