The Mask of Fu Manchu
Rohmer, Sax
Sold by Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since June 20, 2007
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
Ships within U.S.A.
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since June 20, 2007
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketThis is not the 1932 Doubleday Doran / Crime Club true first in original John Richard Flanagan dust jacket, which can now command $500 to $1,500. But this 1930s A.L. Burt reprint -- which retains the wonderful original jacket art -- is at least as hard to find in original DJ (as here). (Jacket "very good" with color fading to spine and minor disturbances to bottom edge of front panel. Also, some pieces of construction paper have been glued along top and bottom edges of VERSO of the jacket, not visible when jacket is in place, presumably to protect against any further chipping.) And while internal illustrations are uncommon in these Burt reprints, here Burt retains a b&W frontispiece (highlighted in yellow -- is that after-market?) and the atmospheric double-truck B&W illustrations to the endpapers, as well as the three action-packed, two-page horizontal internal Flanagan B&W illustrations to pp. 124-125, 142-143, and 246-247. Although "Daughter of Fu Manchu" was made into an early talkie with Anna Mae Wong and Warner Oland by Paramount the previous year, it was of course "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932) that stunned audiences by bringing together Boris Karloff as the insidious Oriental mastermind, Lewis Stone as his nemesis from Scotland Yard, and the incomparable Myrna Loy as daughter Fah Lo See. Very-good in yellow boards with black titling, and a hard-to-find 1930s title in any (non-"facsimile") jacket in this condition. 330 pp. As with all our items priced higher than $90, this item will be shipped "signature required." This book in original jacket now reduced from $175.
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While we mark down our unsold books on a regular basis, our "BEST PRICE" on any given day is the price posted. We purposely avoid selling on the "Make me an offer" auction sites, where every book is "acceptable" and paperback reprints of "The Great Gatsby" bearing ISBNs and barcodes are listed as "published 1925." And we DECLINE to jack up our prices by 20 percent so we can offer every supplicant a supposed 10 or 15 percent "discount," thus turning anyone who simply pays our asking price into a ...
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