A Complete Criminal Omnibus
ROHMER, Sax. The Book of Fu-Manchu. London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd. [1929.]
8vo. Original publisher’s black cloth with pasted down labels printed on orange paper, Original pictorial dust jacket; pp. [viii], 704; rubbing to head and tail of spine and marginal tear to bottom of spine with previous owners’ inscription to front end paper, otherwise very good.
First UK hardcover edition, unusual in its illustrated dustjacket.
An omnibus volume containing three long complete novels: “The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu”. “The Devil Doctor”. And “The Sci-fan Mysteries”, all of which concern the criminal activities of Dr. Fu-Manchu “to whom the mysteries of life and death are naught” (blurb).
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