Limehouse Nights

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No DJ. First edition. Square book in original brown cloth with some wear to tips and fading/soiling to spine. Tanning to text block. Tasteful owner bookplate on inside front board., Bright pages and sharp text. Limehouse Nights is Burke s first book. It is a collection of short stories about life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of… Read more about this item

London: Grant Richards Limited, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes a contemporary TLS from Burke to poet and writer Samuel Loveman in the original mailing envelope. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Brown buckram, a binding variant matching the author's own copy, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean,… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917. First American Edition. First Printing, with "Published August 1917" on copyright page, and no mention of further printings. Octavo (19.75cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [10],11-311,[1]pp. Some wear to spine ends and extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with some mild discoloration to board edges,… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. Mcbride and Company, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Mahlon Blaine. Later printing of the new illustrated edition, ca. 1935 based on new titles list on rear panel of jacket. 8vo, 277pp, publisher's black cloth with green stamped design and lettering. Very good with dulling to spine and cloth worn at spine ends and corners. Former… Read more about this item

Robert M. McBride & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Good hardcover. Binding is sound and pages are clean, but gently yellowed. Covers are soiled, top of spine has 1" tear in cloth, top left corner of front cover is dented as though book was dropped, corners are rubbed, and top… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1919. Tawdry tales of this poverty-stricken district of London, featuring its Chinese denizens. Tenth printing, first published two years earlier. Hardcover, full yellow-orange cloth, black titling. Cover worn, hinges tender; name, place, date on free endsheet. Text clean; 311 pages.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 5½" by 7¾".

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1918. These stories set in London's Limehouse District were the first successful work by Burke [1886-1945]. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone [Hubin, p. 58] . First published in August 1917; this is a Very Good (Minus) copy of a Later Printing [stated "Sixth Printing, September, 1918"]. Yellow/tan cloth binding with titling in black on the… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Inscription on the front fly; very good, with the spine sunned and a small scrape to the front cover, without dustwrapper.

London: Grant Richards Limited, 1916. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original terra cotta cloth, some rubbing, minor browning. From the library of B. W. Heubsch, the American publisher, with his signature on the endpaper. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Queen's Quorum. Refused by 12 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. These are the first published tales by Burke… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow cloth, lettered in black. Cloth rather soiled, spine panel darkened by age. Text block edges tanned and spotted. Lacking front flyleaf, both hinges and binding firm. 311 pp. Sept. 1921 ptg..

Unknown, 2021. POD; 18 Feb, 2021. Trade-sized.. Paperback. Fine.

Daily Express, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages 45-52 detached but still present. Pages have medium tanning and light foxing throughout. Blue staining to edge of first few pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. Cloth. 0818006196 . A Fine edition in a scuffed Very Good+ dust-jacket ; Limehouse Nights is a novel set in London during the 1820s. It follows the intersecting lives of several characters, including a charismatic Irishman named Cornelius O'Donnell, a beautiful but dangerous woman named Kitty… Read more about this item

Grant Richards, 1916. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1916 Grant Richards Limited first edition tight and unmarked with very light corner bump. No jacket but now in chemise and slipcase. B55 Please email for photos.

Robert M McBride & Co., 1917. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1917. No Edition Remarks. 311 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning… Read more about this item

Daily Express Publications, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Book is noticeably bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has moderate tanning with… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon [1973]. (Hardcover) 304pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor rubbing to dust jacket. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. (Fiction, Short Stories).

Horizon House Pubs, 1973. Hardcover. USED Good. Blue pen zigzag down the center of the text column on most pages from 12 to 29, as well as a list of food on p 19. Otherwise very good.

New York: Books For Libraries Press, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Fine Hardcover, reprint, no dustwrapper. Book is in fine condition, except for light wear of spine ends. Nice, clean copy. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed… Read more about this item

London: Grant Richards. 9th imp. (July 1923). 311pp. Original blue cloth with black titles to cover and spine. VG copy, binding square and tight, spine gently darkened, very light foxing to prelims, internally excellent, no jacket . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1923.