Sax Rohmer
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
New York, A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1920. Cloth. An early U.S. edition of the first Dr. Fu-Manchu novel, an exciting crime novel by Sax Rohmer. The fifth U.S. edition.'The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu' is the first novel in which the master criminal Dr. Fu-Manchu appears, collecting short stories together to form a novel in which Fu-Manchu eludes and frustrates Dr. Petrie and Nayland Smith.Also published in the U.K. as 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu', and made into a film titled 'The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu' in 1929.By Sax Rohmer, the pen-name of Arthur Henry Ward, who is best known for his series of novels which feature the master criminal Fu Manchu, who first appeared in the 1911 novel 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu&apos.In a facsimile dust wrapper. Twelve pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the joints, spine, and extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, with a very small amount of loss of cloth. Spine and extremities are a little faded. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
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