Rohmer (Sax) [pseud. Arthur Sarsfield Ward]. Yu’an Hee See Laughs.
£95
London, Cassell, 1933
‘Popular edition’. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced at 2/6.
An attractive copy of this early issue (the first UK edition was published the year before), from the creator of the sinister Dr Fu Manchu. The villainous & nebulous Yu’an Hee See does battle with Scotland Yard’s Dawson Haigh against a backdrop of Limehouse, Marseilles, the Mediterranean and the Near East, with a vast fortune of gold at stake…
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Internally Fine; cloth with slight rolling to spine and minor rubbing to joints, overall VG+; dust-jacket with a few small closed tears, wear to fore-edge of lower panel, spine slightly sunned.
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