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Quin's Shanghai Circus: Available Copies

First paperback printing. VG+ condition. Faint creases along the spine seams.

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"

First printing with the full number line present. 6" x 9" trade paperback bound in pictorial wrappers. Fine condition. The author's first novel. Introduction by John Nichols. Foreword by Tom Wallace. Afterword by Judy Karasik.

This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Uncorrected proof. 1st paperback. Foxing to wrapper edges. Minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise very good.

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!).

Glue residue of back end page. Slight spine lean.; First edition stated.; 291 pages

A lovely copy of the stated first edition in dust jacket.

Slightly cocked else Vg/Vg lightly spine faded dj.

Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

A clean and attractive copy of the First Edition. Jacket has a somewhat sunned spine.

First edition. Foxing on topedge, very good in a very good dust jacket with a sunned spine and few tiny nicks. Author's first book.

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.

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.

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

Full number line.; 311 pages 1st Old Earth Books Edition; First Printing.

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.

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.

THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. 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?

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

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

Edward Whittemore's striking debut, Quin's Shanghai Circus (1974), emerges from his CIA-forged imagination to conjure a conspiracy-laden, surreal spy odyssey. Quin's quest from a Bronx bar to wartime Tokyo unspools amid grotesque characters, historical mayhem, and uncanny mythmakingblending espionage, fantasy, and secret histories with a disorienting, quotation-free prose style. Though overlooked for decades, this audacious novel laid the groundwork for Whittemore's celebrated Jerusalem Quartet. Fine in very good or better, lightly spine sunned dust jacket with some crinkling to edges, in mylar cover. Publisher's yellow cloth, stamped in red and black, in Paul Bacon dust jacket ($7.95)

Title: Quin's Shanghai Circus Author: Edward Whittemore Publisher: Hutchinson, London Publication date/edition (if known): 1975, 1st UK edition Binding: hardback cloth Pages: 291pp Description / Condition: Light wear/sunning to jacket. Light wear to boards. Inscription to inner board. Light foxing to pages with some edge spotting.? Minor pencil notes to last 'blank' pages.??A nice, rare title.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. LIKE NEW. The book is FINE. The dust jacket is minimally wrinkled at the spine ends. Author's first book.

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

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 291pp., Author's first novel. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket by Paul Bacon

First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else near fine dustwrapper. The author's first book, preceding the Jerusalem Quartet.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 291pp.,