Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown

by Thomas Burke

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original terra cotta cloth, some rubbing, minor browning. From the library of B. W. Huebsch, the American publisher, with his signature on the endpaper. NCBEL 4:545; Queen's Quorum 58; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Item #29271 Refused by 12 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. These are the first published tales by Burke of London's East End.

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