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The Si-Fan Mysteries, Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor
by Sax Rohmer [PSEUD Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959)] signed
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
vii+306+[2]+[31 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth lettered in black on spine and cover in a later state dust jacket. Signed and dated (1922) by the author on the front-free endpaper. First English edition.
The third Fu-Manchu title. Commissioner Nayland Smith, along with friend and colleague, Doctor Petrie, once again face the schemes of the dreaded master criminal Dr. Fu-Manchu... Mysteries begin to spread across London, and at their heart is a newly opened exclusive hotel... It is soon clear that the cause of these baffling mysteries is the evil Dr. Fu-Manchu... and this time the Devil Doctor has not come alone... with him are the dreaded Si-Fan... Originally published in the United States with the title The Hand of Dr. Fu-Manchu.
Condition: Signed and dated (1922) by the author on the front-free endpaper. Moderate edge wear to boards; front board warped; contents with moderate to heavy scattered foxing, slightly cocked. Jacket edges chipped, corners chipped, crease to front jacket, extremities rubbed else a good copy in a very good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1327b
- Title
- The Si-Fan Mysteries, Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor
- Author
- Sax Rohmer [PSEUD Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959)] signed
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen and Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Pages
- vii+306+[2]+[31 ad] pages
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Later State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from a later run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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