Description: Queen's Quorum 58 Thomas Burke Limehouse Nights 1st VG. First Edition. Publisher: Grant Richards Limited, 1916 8vo, 311pp. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Original brown cloth. Title and author stamped in brown. Matching book box. Condition: Very Good: First Edition. Used Hardcover. Top-edge browned; Very mild shelf wear to edges. Bright covers. No foxing to text.Refused by 12 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. These are the first published tales by Burke of London's East End.Original terra cotta cloth, minimal rubbing, minor browning. Contains fourteen about life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. These short stories of the opium, occult, and mystery in London's Chinatown. The author's first and best crime book which presents a series of violent tales that rely on authentic background and Oriental flavor for their readability.
Price: 400 USD
Location: Arlington, Texas
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Thomas Burke
Publisher: Grant Richards
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: London's Chinatown
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1916
