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TALES OF CHINATOWN
by Rohmer, Sax
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Rebound in blue tweed cloth with paper spine label. Edge browning. Page 23 yapped.
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: A. L. Burt Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Rebound in blue tweed cloth with paper . spine label. Edge browning. Page 23 yapped.. 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. Rohmer's Chinatown is full of the mystery and menace of the East. "The superficial inquirer comes away convinced that the romance of the Asiatic district has no existence outside the imaginations of writers of fiction. Yet here lies a secret quarter, as secret and as strange, in its smaller way, as its parent in China which is called the Purple Forbidden City." In the Limehouse you'll find crime, drugs, and Chief Inspector Red Kerry, struggling to keep a lid on this particular pot. ; 7.75 x 5 x 1 inches; 376 pages .
Synopsis
In the saloon bar of a public-house, situated only a few hundred yards from the official frontier of Chinatown, two men sat at a small table in a corner, engaged in earnest conversation. They afforded a sharp contrast. One was a thick-set and rather ruffianly looking fellow, not too cleanly in either person or clothing, and, amongst other evidences that at one time he had known the prize ring, possessing a badly broken nose.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5658
- Title
- TALES OF CHINATOWN
- Author
- Rohmer, Sax
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Rebound in blue tweed cloth with paper spine label. Edge browning. Page 23 yapped.
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- SUSPENSE, SHORT Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries & Thrillers; Mystery & Suspense / Q - R;
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About the Seller
Blackbird Bookshop
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Trumbull, Connecticut
About Blackbird Bookshop
Blackbird Bookshop is an internet-only bookstore specializing in Mystery and Suspense, and Modern First Editions. We have high standards for any book in our stock, regardless of the age of the book. If we wouldn't be proud to display it in our personal collection, we won't sell it.
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- Rebound
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