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Edité par Starmont House, [Mercer Island, WA], 1991
ISBN 10 : 1557422435ISBN 13 : 9781557422439
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel featuring Singapore Sammy Shea who seeks a legendary undersea monster (a giant intelligent amoeba) lurking in the Indian Ocean. Originally published as a six-part serial in ARGOSY in 1935. Also collects "Buddha's Whisker," a Singapore Sammy story. Introduction by Fred Cook. Worts (1892-1967) was one of the best and most popular post World War I pulp adventure fiction writers. Reginald 15630. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#158986).
Edité par J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & London, 1919
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-379 [380: blank], inserted frontispiece with color illustration by Gayle Hoskins, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. Non fantastic novel of mystery and intrigue surrounding the efforts of an idealistic young American adventurer to destroy a powerful Chinese merchant, the Gray Dragon of Len Yang, who has enslaved thousands to work in his cinnabar mines. Day, The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p. 95. Hubin (1994), p. 880. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 W-901. Front free endpaper missing, else a very good copy. (#172487).
Edité par Jonathan Cape & Robert Ballou, New York, 1932
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [3-8] 1-363 [364-368: blank], publisher's green cloth, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. This fantasy of history was filmed in 1932 as a musical comedy and political satire starring George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante, with songs by Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics). Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 826. Bleiler (1978), p. 212. Reginald 15631. Spine panel sunned, stain on front cover, a sound, good copy. (#173648).