Typhoon by James Bennett (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE BOOK HAS SOME RUBBING AND WEAR TO THE EDGES, COVER AND CORNERS. THE SPINE HAS TITLE PRINTED IN BLACK. BLUE CLOTH COVER HAS LIGHT STAINING AND MARKS TO THE BACK AND FRONT. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEANAND CREASE FREE APART FROM SOME FOXING. THE BINDING IS REASONABLY FIRM APART FROM ONE PAGE IS LOOSE FROM BINDING. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS HARD TO FIND EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. [minor shelfwear, small faded spot at base of spine cloth; jacket has a few small tears, some soiling/rubbing, small chip at base of spine, tiny chip at bottom of rear panel]. "A powerful story of modern China," centering around the mixed-race son born of a forced marriage between a Chinese woman and an American sea-captain. "With character and mind complicated by this conflicting blood, Hen-li develops into a leader of New China. The narrative of his passionate and all but tragic career, his vacillation between Western and Eastern viewpoints, becomes not only an unusual human document but a valuable contribution to our understanding of the political turmoil in the Far East today." A bit pretentious, perhaps, although the jacket blurb states that the author had served in the Consular Service in China and also as a lecturer at a Chinese university, so least he came by his background material honestly. Bennett cranked out a handful of novels and several handfuls (handsful?) of short stories, many for the adventure pulps, mostly between the mid-1920s and the early 1930s -- the great majority of them (surprise!) with Chinese or other Asian-Pacific settings and subjects, with titles like "The Manchu Cloud" and "Dragon Shadows." I've been unable to confirm a death date, but his short-story output appears to have dropped off after about 1932; the latest story I've found by him appeared in 1938. NOISBN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Duffield & Company, New York, 1928. 292 pages, 7.5 x 5.25 inches. First edition. Very good copy in fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Set in China. Book in very good condition. Cloth binding spine a bit faded. Dust jacket unclipped, no tears, no damage. Protected by a Mylar cover.