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KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT
by BRAMAH, ERNEST
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928., 1928. First edition. First U. S. edition. Third book in the Kai Lung series. Color decorated pictorial cloth v, [3], 320 pp. in very good condition, in the elusive dust jacket lightly chipped at the spine ends with tiny nicks, chips and closed tears to the extremities. Kai Lung is married to Hwa-mei, the Golden Mouse, and when he returns from a journey he finds his house burned and his wife stolen by Ming-Shu, his arch enemy and leader of a rebel band. An elusive title especially so in the dust jacket.
Synopsis
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in 1928 and has been reprinted a number of times since, most notably as the sixty-fourth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February, 1974.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47115
- Title
- KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT
- Author
- BRAMAH, ERNEST
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1928
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