Copy of letter sent Dec. 17 



There goes forward to you under another cover 

 a volume just from our presses, by P. Ward Denys ' - "Our 

 Summer in the Vale of Kashmir," We are sending you this 

 simply for the reason that we want you to see it. 



There is an old adage that "it costs three times 

 as much to sell a hook as it does to produce it," and 

 whenever and wherever you have bought a book the chances 

 sire that you have paid this tax, this for the reason that 

 there are so many middlemen's profits necessary in the 

 usual scheme of things before any purchaser has an oppoj — 

 tunity to even see a book. 



Ordinarily we should be compelled to price this 

 book at $6.00 the volume, but because of cur confidence 

 in the. subject and the beauty of the book, we have de- 

 cided on this unusual method of banking our judgment by 

 sending to a limited list of booklovers, travelers, and. 

 those ?/hom we feel appreciate works of art - this volume 

 asking merely that you look in over, and if you think 

 it is worthy of a place in your library, return to us 

 the production cost of $2.00. If you do not care for 

 the book or do not care to present it to a friend, mere- 

 ly hand it to an expressman or to the postman and have 

 it returned at our expense. 



Mitchell Carroll has written a charming intro- 

 duction to this volume, and it is profusely illustrated 

 by typo-photogravure illustrations and by multi- 

 color reproductions from paintings by Colonel Hart, 

 resident officer of the British Army in Kashmir. This 



