YELLOW MEN SLEEP.
by LANE, Jeremy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co. , 1919.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth lettered in black on spine & front cover, small devices & rules in blind on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece by George W. Gage. Inner rear hinge neatly repaired, yellow cloth a bit dust soiled. A very good copy, overall, of a book which tends to show up badly soiled and worn.
¶ Yellow Peril & Lost race adventure novel of the hidden empire of Tau Kuan in the once verdant Gobi Desert. A civilization descended from the great Khans flourishes, its people sustained by a sacred drug. First published as "The Fragrant Web," in ALL-STORY WEEKLY as a long serial that began 3 May 1919.
¶ Yellow Peril & Lost race adventure novel of the hidden empire of Tau Kuan in the once verdant Gobi Desert. A civilization descended from the great Khans flourishes, its people sustained by a sacred drug. First published as "The Fragrant Web," in ALL-STORY WEEKLY as a long serial that began 3 May 1919.
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- Bookseller
- Thompson Rare Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 303565
- Title
- YELLOW MEN SLEEP.
- Author
- LANE, Jeremy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- The Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Soiled
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- Hinge
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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