The Island of Fu Manchu
by Rohmer, Sax
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some spots of foxing. Some rubbing to spine and boards. Some bruising to tips of corners of boards. Lacking the dust-jacket.; First printing. vi, 282 pages. Black cloth boards with red panel on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 121mm. "Of Adartha I dared not think; only I knew that the mystery of her reappeance, and of her flight, belonged to the greater and darker mystery which was Dr. Fu Manchu. A sense of evil impending, of some unwelcome truth fighting for admission, oppressed me. When I left Kensington Gardens and heard the gate locked behind me, I stood for a while looking across at my windows." - pages 7-8. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23334
- Title
- The Island of Fu Manchu
- Author
- Rohmer, Sax
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1941)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Good+
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.