EAST OF MANSION HOUSE
by Burke, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Top page edges dusty, inked name to front free end paper, small booksellers' label to lower front paste down, spine a bit du
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1926]. First edition. Top page edges dusty, inked name to front free end paper, small booksellers' label to lower front paste down, spine a bit dull, mild insect tracking to lower front cover and a bit of rear cover, a very good copy. (22339). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [7-8] 9-270 [271-272: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Published later in Britain in 1928 by Cassell and Company. Burke's third collection of Limehouse stories. A collection of twelve horror and crime stories including two supernatural tales, "White Wings" and "The Tablets of the House of Li." This edition includes "Black Country," a grotesque auto-erotic suicide tale,"replaced with "Uncle Reuben" in the British edition published by Cassell in 1928. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Bleiler (1948), p. 66. Hubin (1994), p. 119.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22339
- Title
- EAST OF MANSION HOUSE
- Author
- Burke, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Top page edges dusty, inked name to front free end paper, small booksellers' label to lower front paste down, spine a bit du
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1926]
- Keywords
- Mystery . Horror
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
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