Broken Blossoms: stories from "Limehouse Nights"
by Thomas Burke
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
-
Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Thomas Burke's escapist mystery stories are a significant aspect of underground and criminal London literature. Perhaps the very opposite of the Golden Age genteel society murder mystery. The stories are from the classic "Limehouse Nights" whose stories feature Chinaman and muscular sensual narratives set in London's docklands with violence, and robbery not far away.
This is a first edition in good order for its age - now over 100 years old. The pages are yellowed with age, but all are present. The binding is still good and the design of the covers are bright. They protected by the jacket - still quite colourful. It is nicked at the top and bottom of the spine but still intact. Uncommon in this condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scorpion Press (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 179
- Title
- Broken Blossoms
- Author
- Thomas Burke
- Format/Binding
- Light blue cloth over decorated boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 184
- Size
- 7" x 4.1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Detective fiction, Mystery, Crime, short stories.
Terms of Sale
Scorpion Press
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About the Seller
Scorpion Press
Biblio member since 2019
Kington, Herefordshire
About Scorpion Press
Bookseller in the late 1980's selling via catalogues and fairs. Then migrated to publishing special editions as Scorpion Press. Over 100 titles published including major crime and mystery authors: Dick Francis, Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Bernard Cornwell, Len Deighton. Now concentrating on leather rebindings in runs of twelve copies - signed on an author profile page.
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