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The Return of Kai Lung: Available Copies
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The Return of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest
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Publisher: Sheridan House, New York (1937)
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery (truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $40.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $45.00
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THE RETURN OF KAI LUNG . by Bramah, Ernest (pseudonym of Ernest Bramah Smith)
Hardcover
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Publisher: Sheridan House, New York (1937)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $50.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $57.00
Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-319 [320: blank], original pumpkin cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained green. First U.S. edition. The fourth Kai Lung book. Published earlier in Britain as THE MOON OF MUCH GLADNESS (1932). "Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller who tells one of his tales whenever he gets into a tight spot [like Scheherezade, as Ashley points out]. Bramah's China bears about the same amount of resemblance to the real China as Walter Scott's England of Ivanhoe bears to the real English twelfth century ." - Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway, p. 149. "The stories are mannered and playful, less moralistic than they pretend to be, and constitute a unique series of literary confections." - Barron, Fantasy Literature 3-48. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 42-3. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-48. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 982. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 827-30. Reginald 01827A. Neat owner's name dated 1937 on the front free endpaper. Touch of dust soiling to cloth, a nearly fine copy. (#177468)
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RETURN OF KAI LUNG. [Fourth in the Series of Four Titles] by BRAMAH, Ernest
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Publisher: ()
Seller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB (Aptos, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $54.00
Shipping: $12.00
TOTAL Cost: $66.00
New York 1937, Shereidan House. Brown cloth, exceptionally clean, bright & sharp copy, 319p., 13.5 x 21 cm. FIRST EDITION THE BINDING: The work is bound in original 3/4 blue cloth with two lovely color paintings used as the cover images, the back cover is signed by the artist: J. Nadejera. With lovely clean undamaged spine label. * THE TRUE AUTHOR: Ernest Bramah [20 March 1868 -27 June 1942], born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. Only four were on China, see us for these titles. * REFERENCES:.
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RETURN OF KAI LUNG. [Fourth in the Series of Four Titles] by BRAMAH, Ernest
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Seller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB (Aptos, CA, U.S.A.)
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Book Price: $54.00
Shipping: $12.00
TOTAL Cost: $66.00
New York 1937, Shereidan House. Yellow cloth, very good, clean, copy, 319p., 13.5 x 21 cm. FIRST EDITION THE BINDING: The work is bound in original 3/4 blue cloth with two lovely color paintings used as the cover images, the back cover is signed by the artist: J. Nadejera. With lovely clean undamaged spine label. * THE TRUE AUTHOR: Ernest Bramah [20 March 1868 -27 June 1942], born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. Only four were on China, see us for these titles. * REFERENCES:.
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The Return of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah
Hardcover
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Publisher: Sheridan House, New York (1937)
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $24.74
Shipping: $64.06
TOTAL Cost: $88.80
Lightly soiled yellow boards and spine lettered in green; spine leans a little and is browned. Internally name and date written on free front end paper. Clean contents.
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The Return of Kai Lung by BRAMAH, Ernest
Hardcover
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Publisher: Sheridan House, New York (1937)
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books (Northampton, MA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $85.00
Shipping: $10.00
TOTAL Cost: $95.00
First American Edition, Stated. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket, green top edge. Very good dust jacket, price clipped, nickle sized chip at top of rear panel extending to spine head, spine faded, very lightly chipping to spine ends, near fine overall, top edge faded, pages slightly agetoned.
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THE RETURN OF KAI LUNG by Bramah, Ernest
Hardcover
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Publisher: Sheridan House, New York (1937)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (Laurel, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $125.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $132.00
Octavo, Hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, rubbing and light edge wear to spine ends and front corners, rubbing to front foldover. Light dust soiling to rear panel. (7193)
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RETURN OF KAI LUNG. [Fourth in the Series of Four Titles] by BRAMAH, Ernest
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Publisher: ()
Seller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB (Aptos, CA, U.S.A.)
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Book Price: $121.00
Shipping: $12.00
TOTAL Cost: $133.00
New York 1937, Shereidan House. Yellow cloth, exceptionally clean, bright, unclipped dj. in mylar protector, small chips corner wear, else sharp, 319p., "EDITOR'S COPY" is stamped in faint purple inside back cover,13.5 x 21 cm.FIRST EDITION THE BINDING: The work is bound in original 3/4 blue cloth with two lovely color paintings used as the cover images, the back cover is signed by the artist: J. Nadejera. With lovely clean undamaged spine label. * THE TRUE AUTHOR: Ernest Bramah [20 March 1868 -27 June 1942], born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. Only four were on China, see us for these titles. * REFERENCES:.
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Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA (Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $150.00
Shipping: $8.00
TOTAL Cost: $158.00
First edition. Near fine in price-clipped very good dust jacket. (Bookplate on front pastedown. Shallow chipping at spine ends on jacket. A few short edge tears in jacket. Spine on jacket tad toned. ) Pleasing copy in the jacket. ; 319 pages
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