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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
    Book Price: $9.98
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Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $9.98
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Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Edward Whittemore

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston January 1974 (1974)


    Seller: Dunaway Books (St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.)
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Edward Whittemore

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    Publisher: Popular Library ()


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

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    Publisher: Popular Library ()


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
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Quin's Shanghai Circus. A novel.
    by Edward Whittemore.

    Paperback
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Popular Library, New York (1974)


    Seller: Monkey House Books (Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $10.00
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Quin travels from the Bronx to the Far East to investigate connections amongst a host of bizarre & disparate characters. 256 pages, previous owner's name, else Fine. Edward Whittemore was an American novelist active in the 1970s and 1980s. He was born in New Hampshire and spent his career with the CIA before turning to writing. His best-known work is the Jerusalem Quartet, a fictional telling of the history of the Middle East which blended historical fiction and magical realism. Softcover, mass market paperback.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781882968213
    Publisher: Old Earth Books (2002)


    Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta (AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $16.23
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1974)


    Seller: DogStar Books (Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $13.50
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8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages; 1974 Holt, Rinehart and Winston HC/DJ Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket. States 1st edition but liely a book club reprint with no price to jacket front flap. Jacket with just mild shelf wear to edges and surfaces. Contents bright and clean with no marks. VG+/VG

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Edward Whittemore

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974)


    Seller: CHESIL BEACH BOOKS (WEYMOUTH, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
    Book Price: $3.90
    Shipping: $16.41
    TOTAL Cost: $20.31

DJ sunned on spine, shelf wear on dj covers, wear and tears and chipping on dj edges, wear and some marking on boards( more at top of rear board), small dents in rear board, foxing on sides, otherwise good. 700 grams.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1974)


    Seller: Eric James (Lewisporte, NL, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $10.00
    Shipping: $10.95
    TOTAL Cost: $20.95

Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 291 pages; very light shelf wear to cover edges, covers rubbed and scuffed, but gently used, ink signature inside front cover, interior otherwise clean and unmarked; DJ lightly chipped at top of spine, one larger chip to spine bottom, but colourful front panel and spine pictorial looking bright, clean and attractive although spine slightly faded. For more mysteries of the Orient, and who can get enough?, see also our John P. Marquand Mr. Moto titles, and our Earl Derr Biggers' Charlie Chan titles, as well as our listings for Laura Joh Rowland's Black Lotus, and her Shinju (buy two or more and save on postage!).

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974)


    Seller: Hafa Adai Books (Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Paperback
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    Publisher: Popular Library, Toronto (1974)


    Seller: Wagon Tongue Books (Linden, AB, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $9.78
    Shipping: $15.07
    TOTAL Cost: $24.85

Thiese 256 pages of fiction open with the note that shortly after the end of WWII, a large Brooklyn man named Geraty, imported a very large collection of Japanese pornography. Read more about : Big Gobi, courier system, Baron Kikuchi, Mukden, Kyoto, Kamakura, customs warehouse, and rice paper sliding doors. UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with (red and) black lettering. Spine fine, edges sharp. No names nor marks. Covers rubbed. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 105) : " On a barren plain near Mukden his regiment was surrounded by Cossack cavalry. The fierce horsemen swept reportedly through the Japanese lines, cutting down the soldiers with their pikes. KiKuchi alone was able to ._._._. . " Size: 12mo

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Edward Whittemore

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781882968213
    Publisher: Old Earth Books (2002)


    Seller: Ergodebooks (Houston, TX, U.S.A.)
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781882968213
    Publisher: Old Earth Books (2002)


    Seller: Hafa Adai Books (Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Holt (1974)


    Seller: Black Dog Books (Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $25.00
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Slightly cocked else Vg/Vg lightly spine faded dj.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974)


    Seller: Black Dog Books (Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.)
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A lovely copy of the stated first edition in dust jacket.

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QUIN'S SHANGHAI CIRCUS
    by Whittemore, Edward.

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt Rinehart Winston., NY: (1974)


    Seller: Kathmandu Books (Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $24.00
    Shipping: $6.99
    TOTAL Cost: $30.99

HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Tape stains to the boards and endpapers, and a library stamp to the title page and bottom of the page block. A little spine slanted. Very good in very good dust jacket with slight fading to the spine.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: (1974)


    Seller: Library House Internet Sales (Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $25.00
    Shipping: $6.50
    TOTAL Cost: $31.50

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780091230500
    Publisher: Hutchinson of London, London (1975)


    Seller: Syber's Books (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $14.76
    Shipping: $17.00
    TOTAL Cost: $31.76

Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Paul Bacon, with red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. A surreal alternate history, with a man's search for answers about his vanished parents that propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past: from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Softening of the back strip edges with bumping of the top book edges. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with light age toning of the text block edges and stains and foxing to the text block edges. Foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book and remnants of a sticker can be seen to the top edge of the free front end page. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. Fading of the back strip. First English Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 291 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Paul Bacon -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0091230500. ISBN/EAN: 9780091230500. Inventory No: 0289571.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781882968213
    Publisher: Old Earth Books (2002)


    Seller: Wizard Books (Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $28.84
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    TOTAL Cost: $32.34

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by WHITTEMORE, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1974)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $30.00
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First edition. Contemporary owner name and date on front fly, foxing on topedge with faint stains at the edge of front and rear flyleaves, very good in a very good dust jacket with light soiling on the spine and a tiny tear at the foot. Author's first book.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781882968213
    Publisher: Old Earth Books, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (2002)


    Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC (Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $30.00
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8vo. 311 pages. Pictorial soft covers. Light wear to extremities, fold across lower front corner; interior unmarked. A very good minus to very good copy.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by WHITTEMORE, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1974)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fine
    Book Price: $35.00
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First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with fading on the spine. Author's first book.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Paperback
    ISBN: 9781882968213
    Publisher: Old Earth Books (2002)


    Seller: GoldBooks (Austin, TX, U.S.A.)
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    Book Price: $36.25
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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York (1974)


    Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books (Martinez, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Fine
    Book Price: $45.00
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A clean and attractive copy of the First Edition. Jacket has a somewhat sunned spine.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus.
    by Edward Whittemore

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974)


    Seller: Library House Internet Sales (Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $55.00
    Shipping: $6.50
    TOTAL Cost: $61.50

In Edward Whittemore's masterful and surreal alternate history, a man's search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai. Years later, in a Bronx bar, Quin encounters a stranger who hints that he can uncover the secrets of his past by accompanying Big Gobi, an adult orphan too simpleminded to travel alone, on a journey to meet his guardian in Tokyo. Quin arrives in Japan determined to uncover the truth about his parents' past, but his search soon raises more questions than answers. What are the connections between a Russian anarchist, a one-eyed baron who is head of the Japanese secret service known as the Kempeitai, and the atrocities committed during the rape of Nanking? And what does any of it have to do with Quin's parents? Foxing is present on one or more pages. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward:

    Hardcover
    ISBN: 9780030114410
    Publisher: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (1974)


    Seller: Antiquariat im Schloss (Schwaigern, D, Germany)
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    Book Price: $25.57
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    TOTAL Cost: $63.34

291 pp. Ln. mit Su.(lt. gerändert), sonst guter Zustand, good condition. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 900

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Quin's Shanghai Circus.
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Hutchinson (1975)


    Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA (Warwick, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Fair
    Book Price: $32.50
    Shipping: $35.34
    TOTAL Cost: $67.84

8vo. orig. cl. d/w. (laminated). Hinges re-inforced, flaps of the d/w. laid down on rear eps., a fair copy.

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Quin's Shanghai Circus
    by Whittemore, Edward

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Hutchinson, London (1975)


    Seller: Klanhorn (Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $50.01
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    TOTAL Cost: $68.01

Tragicomic drama, set in the Far East. Author's first novel. Jacket by Paul Bacon. BOOK: Shallow chip to binding on spine heel and rear board gutter; abrasion wear on the spine head ridge; offset on endpapers; light edgefoxing. JACKET: intact, with price; slight edgewear; shallow chip at spine heel coincident with that on the book; slight spine fade. Photo on request.

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QUIN'S SHANGHAI CIRCUS.
    by WHITTEMORE,, Edward.

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd 1975. (1975)


    Seller: Grant's Bookshop (Cheltenham, VIC, Australia)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $55.37
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    TOTAL Cost: $70.32

292pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Some foxing to edges. A very good copy. First UK edition. Author's first novel.

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