Rohmner Sax (2 results)

Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustwrapper 1st printing. Nobody could write pulp adventure fiction like Sax Rohmer, and this was one of his best. The story and the stereotypes are hopelessly dated, but who cares, it's a ton of fun anyway.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. New York: McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, 1919 313 pp. A series of short stories on a Near Eastern theme. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Page edges dusty . Front hinge tender. Blue cloth boards with dulled gold-stamped title and Egyptian motif along spine are lightly bumped at extremities with several splash marks on front board. Signed in red pencil by author on first free page, "To Sidney Webb with love from Sax Rohmner." Sidney Webb ( 1859 -1947) was a British socialist, economist, reformer and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. He was one of the early members of the Fabian Society along with George Bernard Shaw Along with his wife Beatrice, he and Shaw turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent English political-intellectual society during the Edwardian era. Dedication By Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.