Yu'an Hee See Laughs by Sax Rohmer
ROHMER, Sax. Yu’an Hee See Laughs. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club, 1932.
First edition of this novel introducing Rohmer’s super villain Yu’an Hee See, very scarce in the original dust jacket designed by George Annand a featuring the author’s photograph.
An enigmatic figure known as Yu’an Hee See spearheads an international criminal syndicate involved in drug smuggling, jewellery theft, and human trafficking. Scotland Yard detective Dawson Haig finds himself facing a daunting challenge with scant leads to pursue, leaving him to navigate the case largely on his own…
Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym of British writer Arthur Henry Ward, best known for his Fu Manchu series.
Octavo, pp. 312; near fine; black cloth, lettering to front cover and spine in yellow, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed, in very good pictorial dust jacket, including a photograph of the author on the rear (spine ends gently rolled, jacket with a few nicks to edges and small old tape repair to top edge, spine lightly sunned); bookplate of Helen Linn to front flyleaf, stamped ‘MD 200’ to rear flyleaf.
ROHMER, Sax. Yu’an Hee See Laughs. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club, 1932.
First edition of this novel introducing Rohmer’s super villain Yu’an Hee See, very scarce in the original dust jacket designed by George Annand a featuring the author’s photograph.
An enigmatic figure known as Yu’an Hee See spearheads an international criminal syndicate involved in drug smuggling, jewellery theft, and human trafficking. Scotland Yard detective Dawson Haig finds himself facing a daunting challenge with scant leads to pursue, leaving him to navigate the case largely on his own…
Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym of British writer Arthur Henry Ward, best known for his Fu Manchu series.
Octavo, pp. 312; near fine; black cloth, lettering to front cover and spine in yellow, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed, in very good pictorial dust jacket, including a photograph of the author on the rear (spine ends gently rolled, jacket with a few nicks to edges and small old tape repair to top edge, spine lightly sunned); bookplate of Helen Linn to front flyleaf, stamped ‘MD 200’ to rear flyleaf.
ROHMER, Sax. Yu’an Hee See Laughs. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club, 1932.
First edition of this novel introducing Rohmer’s super villain Yu’an Hee See, very scarce in the original dust jacket designed by George Annand a featuring the author’s photograph.
An enigmatic figure known as Yu’an Hee See spearheads an international criminal syndicate involved in drug smuggling, jewellery theft, and human trafficking. Scotland Yard detective Dawson Haig finds himself facing a daunting challenge with scant leads to pursue, leaving him to navigate the case largely on his own…
Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym of British writer Arthur Henry Ward, best known for his Fu Manchu series.
Octavo, pp. 312; near fine; black cloth, lettering to front cover and spine in yellow, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed, in very good pictorial dust jacket, including a photograph of the author on the rear (spine ends gently rolled, jacket with a few nicks to edges and small old tape repair to top edge, spine lightly sunned); bookplate of Helen Linn to front flyleaf, stamped ‘MD 200’ to rear flyleaf.