The Pleasantries of Old Quong
Burke (Thomas)
Published by Constable, London, 1931
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First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Foxing; slight sunning to cloth; dust-jacket price-clipped and rather worn with some loss, dust-soiling. Jacket artwork by Ejia. Tales of Chinatown and Limehouse: "horrible, ironical, whimsically aloof". Seller Inventory # 84416
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Title: The Pleasantries of Old Quong
Publisher: Constable, London
Publication Date: 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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The Pleasantries of Old Quong
Published by
Constable & Co. Ltd., 1931
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Hardcover
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. fAIR/DJ FAIR vii 279 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Orange cloth boards with blue lettering on spine in fair condition. Dust jacket in archival cover in fair condition. Binding firm. Seller Inventory # 042099
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The Pleasantries of Old Quong
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London : Constable & Co LTd, 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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Condition: Fair. 1931. First Edition. 279 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Inscription and stamps to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine. Seller Inventory # 1703161795CAB
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The Pleasantries of Old Quong
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Constable & Co LTd, 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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Condition: Fair. 1931. First Edition. 279 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards. Seller Inventory # 1680703609GEO
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The pleasantries of Old Quong
Published by
Constable & Co. Ltd., 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Clean hardback tightly bound in orange cloth with worn blue titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. viii + 280 pages; 16 short stories. Seller Inventory # 65065
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THE PLEASANTRIES OF OLD QUONG.
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Constable & Co., London, 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
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8vo. pp vii, 279. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black on spine and lined in black on the front cover. Short stories include: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole, The Secret of Francesco Shedd, The Obscenity of Glamis Flang, Hotel Côte D'Azur. Some mild wear and rubbing to boards, with a few black stops to rear boards, edges and spine a little rubbed, a slight lean with faint fading at spine and slight foxing to preliminaries, otherwise sound, very good minus with clean text. Seller Inventory # C16248
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The Pleasantries of Old Quong
Published by
Constable, London, 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Sixteen stories featuring Mr. Quong and set in the Limehouse district of London. Orange boards gently bumped and rubbed with two small, faint drip marks on the front. Binding square and solid. Seller Inventory # 230032
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The Pleasantries of Old Quong. FIRST EDITION.
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First Edition
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
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Constable & Co. London. 1931. First edition. No DW. Orange cloth, soiled with a faded and slightly rubbed spine. Pages slightly browned, booksellers label to front pastedown otherwise a clean copy of a scarce title. Seller Inventory # 90180
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THE PLEASANTRIES OF OLD QUONG
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Constable, London, 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of these classic mystery short stories, collecting the first appearance of the highly-regarded and frequently anthologized, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole by the author of the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, Limehouse Nights. The Florence and Edward Kaye copy with their neat leather bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A bright, fresh better than very good copy in orange cloth, (spine gently faded), black titles. 8vo. 279 pp. + 1 pp. of adverts. Published in the United States as, A Tea-Shop In Limehouse. Julian Symons, The 100 Best Crime Stories. Ellery Queen, DSS. Seller Inventory # 30224
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THE PLEASANTRIES OF OLD QUONG
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Constable & Co, Ltd. [1931], London, 1931
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
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First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-279 [280: ads], orange cloth, spine stamped in blue. "A series of horror, crime and supernatural tales mostly set in London's Chinatown." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950, p. 120. An important Burke collection which contains a story of which Ellery Queen in Queen's Quorum (p. 66) writes "the author's detective masterpiece, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. This short story, the last word in the evocation of atmosphere and terror on the printed page.". (This collection was published in the U.S. as A Tea Shop in Limehouse). [Reference: Hubin, p. 119. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15]. A very good copy, with some foxing, small store stamp to front free end paper in a very good minus price clipped dust jacket, corners show tape re-enforcement, one third on spine panel of jacket cut out, not affecting any title lettering, some mild rubbing and edge wear. Uncommon, especially so in jacket. (10197). Seller Inventory # 10197
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THE PLEASANTRIES OF OLD QUONG
Published by
Constable & Co, Ltd. [1931], London, 1931
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-279 [280: ads], orange cloth, spine stamped in blue. "A series of horror, crime and supernatural tales mostly set in London's Chinatown." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950, p. 120. An important Burke collection which contains a story of which Ellery Queen in Queen's Quorum (p. 66) writes "the author's detective masterpiece, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. This short story, the last word in the evocation of atmosphere and terror on the printed page.". (This collection was published in the U.S. as A Tea Shop in Limehouse). [Reference: Hubin, p. 119. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15]. Several leaves roughly opened, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with closed tears to the front panel, wear with small chip to upper spine panel, mild wear to corner tips, tiny tear to lower right rear corner and tiny tear to upper rear panel. (32394). Seller Inventory # 32394
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