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Book Description Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Paul Bacon -- Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Paul Bacon, with red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. A surreal alternate history, with a man's search for answers about his vanished parents that propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past: from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Softening of the back strip edges with bumping of the top book edges. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with light age toning of the text block edges and stains and foxing to the text block edges. Foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book and remnants of a sticker can be seen to the top edge of the free front end page. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. Fading of the back strip. First English Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 291 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Paul Bacon -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0091230500. ISBN/EAN: 9780091230500. Inventory No: 0289571. Seller Inventory # 0289571
Book Description Condition: Good. Title: Quin's Shanghai Circus Author: Edward Whittemore Publisher: Hutchinson, London Publication date/edition (if known): 1975, 1st UK edition Binding: hardback cloth Pages: 291pp Description / Condition: Light wear/sunning to jacket. Light wear to boards. Inscription to inner board. Light foxing to pages with some edge spotting.? Minor pencil notes to last 'blank' pages.??A nice, rare title. Seller Inventory # 530/HU/514H 0500
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 291pp. A near fine copy. *** A beautiful copy of the first novel by the obscure American novelist Edward Whittemore (1933-1995). Quin's Shanghai Circus was followed by the Jerusalem Quartet. His books sold poorly and Whittemore died in poverty in 1995. His books are all out of print. Seller Inventory # 001952
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library. Hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000177674