London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-280 [281-282: blank], original orange cloth, spine stamped in black. First British edition. The fifth Fu Manchu novel. Filmed in 1931 by Paramount as Daughter of the Dragon with Anna May Wong, Sessue Hayakawa and Warner Oland as Fu Manchu. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Hubin, p. 695. Reginald 12368. Day, p. 6.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-309 [310-312: blank] [note: title leaf is a tipped in singleton; last leaf is a blank], title printed in orange and black, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. and first expanded edition. This edition adds one story ("The Chord in G") to the collection first published by Jarrolds in 1920. It features the occult detective Moris Klaw, who reads minds by sleeping at the scene of the crime. "The Moris Klaw stories are cleverly plotted and crisply told, and they have dated very little over they have dated very little over the years. Klaw himself is a fascinating creation. The book has been reprinted several times, most recently in 1977, but deserves to be more widely known." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 691-92. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1407. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 819. Hubin (1994), p. 695. Queen's Quorum 64. Bleiler (1978), p. 192. Reginald 12372.

London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-293 [294] [295-296: blank], original green cloth, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold. First U.K. edition. A gang of international criminals with advanced technology (mind control, cell phones, poison gas, electronic map, etc.) secretly expand their control of America from vast caverns under New York City and vicinity. Hubin p. 695. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Reginald 12375. Day, p. 8.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1920. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1-3] 4-308 [309-312: blank], three inserted plates, original green light green cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. A story of Chinatown linked with THE YELLOW CLAW (1915) and the Fu Manchu series, this novel focuses on the activities of Fu Manchu's temporary successor in the Council of Seven while the notorious doctor is recovering from a bullet wound to the head. Fu Manchu appears in the story, but is not named. Second Gaston Max novel. Hubin, p. 365. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Reginald 12378. Day, p. 9.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, [1924]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi[vii-viii] 1-331[332], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Investigator Douglas Carey looks into a criminal conspiracy in London. Per the jacket copy "the political and economic balance of the world is threatened." The villain "Grey Face" has remarkable hypnotic powers. The occult and supernatural are also involved. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1411. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years #1908. Hubin, p. 695. See Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-168.

London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi 1-282, original black cloth spine stamped in red. First British edition. The eleventh Fu Manchu book. In possession of a mind altering drug, Fu Manchu creates a staff of zombie-like workers to further his nefarious scheme to takeover the world. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Hubin, p. 695. Reginald 12383. Day, p. 12.

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. [by] Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-iv] v-vii [viii-x] [1] 2-330, illustrations, original decorated yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, pictorial endpapers, top edge stained black. First edition. The sixth Fu Manchu book. Triumphant in his search for drugs which would arrest the ravages of age, Dr. Fu Manchu has returned to his ambition to raise the society of the Si-Fan to world domination. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Hubin, p. 695. Reginald 12384. Day, p. 12.

London: Metheun & Co. Ltd., [1922]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-308 + 32 page publisher catalog date "Autumn 1913," original red cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, bottom edge uncut. Second edition. The second edition, so marked and published one month after the first edition. The first volume in the Fu Manchu series first published in 1913. Generally considered to be a novel, the first Fu Manchu book actually consists of ten connected short stories. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 585-89. Bleiler (1978), p. 170. Hubin, p. 695. Reginald 12386A. Day, p. 13.

New York: A. L. Burt Company, nd, [1920s?]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. The second book with Fu-Manchu, first published in the U.K. as THE DEVIL DOCTOR. Note, this edition lists printings on the copyright page, the last noting a third printing in 1918, the copyright information is from McBride edition.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi 1-322, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A romance concerning the reanimation of an ancient Egyptian princess, which turns out to be an elaborate hoax. Hubin, p. 695. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1412. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1909. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 170. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Day, p. 15.