First trade edition, following the private limited edition printed on vellum. Publisher's original blue cloth with white titles to the upper board, with the illustrated dust-jacket which is slightly rubbed at the spine and torn at fold joints and front panel (neatly repaired from the inside with archival tape) Endpapers and titlepage lightly foxed, otherwise contents clean with no old inscriptions or other markings. Tennant’s drawings and handwriting are illustrated in facsimile to describe scenes of gay abandon in the life of a missionary sent to the tropics. A VG+ copy in the decent jacket, which is frequently absent with this title. Although date of publication given as 1929, it was not published until 1937. Tennant’s decidedly risqué ‘Notebook’ is a camped-up tale of the Rev. Littlejohn and his two female companions who embark on a missionary expedition into the jungle. No end of mishaps and strange ‘encounters’ befall them until they eventually head for home, seen off at the beach by a troupe of jigging sailors. Tennant was a British socialite and reputedly the brightest of the 'Bright Young People'. He was the youngest son of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, and the former Pamela Wyndham, one of the Wyndham sisters and of The Souls clique. His mother was also a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), Oscar Wilde's lover and a sonneteer. During the 1920s and 1930s he was romantically involved with Siegfried Sassoon.