Cursed By the Treasure by DRAKE, H.B - 1928

A. L. Burt NY A good copy of this 310 page vintage fantasy / science fiction hardcover , with edge wear and a cracked rear hinge a nice reading copy . See Photos clphE

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2010. Paperback - clean copy, in very good condition. With an introduction by S.T. Joshi. CM. Paperback. Very Good. Used.

GB: Lane Bodley Head, 1926. Clean tight text pages but covers are a little worn with small loss to top edge of spine.. 1st Edition. Hardback. G+/No DW.

Uni Books. Digest Size. , 1952 . 35 very good

Macy Masius, 1928. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In green cloth. Slight browning to page edges. Small name stamp. No jacket..

Macy Masius: The Vanguard Press, 1929. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In yellow cloth with slight darkening to cloth on spine. Small previous owner name stamp. No jacket. .

New York: A.L. Burt Company., 1928 [i.e., slightly later]. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Dust Jacket. Early reprint, perhaps the first, of the 1st edition issued by the Macy-Masius Company of New York in 1928. Octavo, original red cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine and front panel. 310 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Ink name on front endpaper, dated 1936. Very slight fraying to cloth at head of spine, a very good, bright copy in the original colour pictorial dust jacket which has a small scuff on the spine and a bit of light staining to the rear panel. A nice copy. ¶ The discovery of an ancient manuscript leads the search for buried treasure which holds a horrible curse.

Greenberg, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In green cloth with fading to cloth on spine. Small name stamp. No jacket. .

New York : Universal Publishing & Distributing, [1952]. First edition under this title. "All the shocking brutality of the old slave trade" - plus love, lust, magic, greed and mutiny. Originally published as "Captain of the Jehovah" in 1936. Uni-Book No. 35. Foolscap 4to (19cm). 43,[i]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; lightly rubbed and slightly creased; lower wrapper slightly marked, and with a numeric stamp, but overall still a very good copy. Just a single copy (Hofstra) of this edition located in major libraries worldwide.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of HB Drake's discussion of Korea in the late 1920s, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three monochrome photographic plates. Collated, complete.The work of Orientalist and scholar H.B. Drake, the author of a small number of non-fiction works and fantasy tales.Drake discusses the Japanese emperor, Imperial Japan's rule over Korea, and offers a criticisms of colonial Korea's educational system.A December 1942 article in an Imperial Japanese newspaper discussed multiple British and American people who were caught by police committing the crime of trying to buy this work at a bookshop in Jongno, Seoul.With two pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Fading to back strip, with significant spotting to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages… Read More