Chinese Parrot

Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1926. First Edition in aged hunter green cloth boards with embossed red lettering on front board and spine.(see photos). Paper is age-toned without foxing. Unclipped ($2.00) jacket is bright orange on front with sunned spine commonly seen on other copies. Jacket had paper loss on front (upper right and lower left-see photos) and several small chips on margins.… Read more about this item

This book published 1926 by copyright by the Curtis Publishing Company. No dust jacket for this book. Is in very good condition. No rips or tears inside the pages. Regular aging wear and tear on the book

New York: Collier Books, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾. The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death… Read more about this item

Very good copy of the famous Charlie Chan Detective novels. Red letters on green boards. One very minor spot on the front cover. Tiny tip folds to a few pages.

Reprint Edition from Grosset & Dunlap (ca. 1932); A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this novel, the 2nd in the Charlie Chan series; scarce in this condition, particularly with the original dust jacket. This copy is in very good condition with a square, tight binding, bold black lettering over red boards, and clean,… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1926. Early Reprint in same year as 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo, black cloth with pink lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a white parrot with one claw dripping blood, publisher's red topstain, 316 pages. Earl Derr Biggers (1884 - 1933) was an… Read more about this item

First thus edition ( ca 1932 ) of the second novel in the Charlie Chan series. There is a list of other Bigger's books published by Madison Square Books on the rear cover it has Keeper of the Keys which was published in 1932 as the latest title. Sun fading to the dustjacket's spine. The top 1/2 inch of the… Read more about this item

UK: Harrap, 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers First Edition Harrap 1927. A VG+ copy. No name inscriptions. Some light foxing to preliminary pages. Covers clean and unblemished. In original bright VG+ pictorial dust jacket. Scarce.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. First Edition. Biggers's second Charlie Chan novel, in which a string of pearls holds the key to the death of a mysterious millionaire. Chan travels from Hawaii to California and goes undercover in the desert to find the answer to a clue spoken in Chinese - by the parrot. Basis for the 1927 film… Read more about this item

NY: Grosset and Dunlap. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers lightly rubbed and soiled.. 1926. Later Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with green topstain. A solid copy of the second book in the authors Charlie Chan series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages .

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pp.288. Green cloth with thin black frame border to front board and publisher's emblem to lower fore-edge corner, black titles to spine. Minimal rubbing to the cloth, fresh inside and out. In the Harrap's Popular Fiction Library in the chequered spine and rear panel, price… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [1927]. Reprint. Hardcover. Black cloth with red topstain, which has a thin streak of discoloration. Pages browned, else unmarked. The dust jacket has scattered tears and chipping, with smudges to the front flap. ; 316 pages .

New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1926. 1st Collier Books Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, blind-bordered cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and wear to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 316 pages; Description: 316 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Chan, Charlie (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Police --Hawaii --Honolulu… Read more about this item

New York: Avon, 1951. Reprint Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Vintage Paperback. Avon #344. Beautiful Reprint Edition, originally published in paperback by Pocket in 1943. No Month, 1951 No Cover Price. Square, tight and clean throughout with veryLittle or no wear save a shallow dog-ear on the top front corner. Small area of fading on the fore-edge. Small,… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth titled in orange. Minor wear to points/edges, slight soil, PO name, slight staining to block edge. Firm and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n. d. (ca 1930)., 1930. First edition. Later edition. Former owner's inked name, address, and date, plus her stamped name on the front free fly leaf, else a fine, bright, square copy in dust jacket, lightly sunned on the spine. Both the size of this book and the dust jacket design are a departure… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 9345 shelf. Red-stamped black cloth. Tiny bit cocked. Usual age-toned paper. No names, clean text. Dust jacket w/ a few chips. Solid collectible condition

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. First Edition in publisher's green cloth with embossed orange lettering to cover and spine. Small rubbed spot on upper corner else a bright and fine copy. Firmly bound. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. The second Charlie Chan mystery novel. A fine copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

London: George G. Harrap, 1927 Dark red cloth titled in black on spine and upper front board. Tight and square, light wear to covers, faint name on front paste-down, foxing in prelims and some pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers "Charlie Chan Mysteries" hardcover Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son, 1926 Condition: Very Good - light wear