East Of Mansion House

New York: George H. Dean Company. Very Good+. 1926. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing, bumping and beginning edgewear and fraying. There are a couple of small balck spots of discoloration on the rear panel of the book coer. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy includes the short stories: The Dream of Ah Lum, The Pash, Black Country, White Wings, Crash! , A Spot of Water, The Top of the Stairs, Adventure, Dow, The Purse, The Tablets of the House of Li, and, Jo"Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London (back then still part of Kent). His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights (1916) , a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator. "The Lamplit Hour", an incidental poem from Limehouse Nights, was set to music in the United States by Arthur Penn in 1919. That same year, American film director D. W. Griffith used another tale from the collection, "The Chink and the Child" as the basis of his screenplay for the movie Broken Blossoms. Griffith based his film Dream Street (1921) on Burke's "Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp". " .