EAST OF MANSION HOUSE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [7-8] 9-270 [271-272: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Published later in Britain in 1928 by Cassell and Company. Burke's third collection of Limehouse stories. A collection of twelve horror and crime stories including two supernatural tales, "White Wings" and "The Tablets of the House of Li." This edition includes "Black Country," a grotesque auto-erotic suicide tale,"replaced with "Uncle Reuben" in the British edition published by Cassell in 1928. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Bleiler (1948), p. 66. Hubin (1994), p. 119]. Top page edges dusty, inked name to front free end paper, small booksellers' label to lower front paste down, spine a bit dull, mild insect tracking to lower front cover and a bit of rear cover, a very good copy. (22339). Item #22339
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