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by Robert J.[Joseph] Casey. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1931). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page. Casey, who was a Chicago columnist, foreign and war correspondent, and journalist, chronicled Chicago mob and gang stories, and observed international crime in his writing travels. The author draws on his own experiences and knowledge for this international, action-filled, suspenseful 'Oriental' mystery, set in Saigon and the lost city of Khmers, peopled with Americans, Chinese, French, embezzlers, gun-runners, jewel thieves, politically motivated persons, a dead Chinese princess, and various crime syndicates, all with their own agendas. This facsimile jacket from the first edition, original Bobbs-Merrill publication, is crisp, new and precisely, professionally produced. Some darkening to the spine, soil spots to the covers, rubbing to the upper and lower spine edges, original front jacket flap was neatly cut and attached to the inside front cover, inside rear cover shows clean white paper remnant, upper edge of front end-paper shows a lending library rubber stamp and some uniform age-toning, else square, firm and about very good in pretty salmon linen with burgundy embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; in a new, high-quality facsimile dust jacket with striking men knife-stabbing below a Buddha, crime scene art to the front and spine panels and $2.00 price to the front inner flap.
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