Search Results: Murder In Peking by Vincent Starrett

NY: Lantern Press, Inc. Publishers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. May be different than stock photo. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. Spine sunned; light wear at edges and corners; small dampstain at bottom front corner. .

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (mystery fiction, China) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: Lantern Press, 1946. Murder at a house party in Peking. Lightly bumped and rubbed, spine slightly sunned with a touch of wear at the heel. Binding square and solid.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

1 . hardback. Fine. 1st ed. NY (Lantern Press) 1946. A fine copy.

New York, NY: Lantern Press, 1946. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/No Jacket. Stated First Printing of February, 1946. Bookshop lending library copy (3 cents a day; 15 cents For First 3 Days" stamped to fEP). Text/Near New. Blue linen boards/VG w/edge & corner tip rubs, & fading to spine. DJ/None. Murder (multiple) mystery set in the scenic Western Hills, or Xishan, in the outskirts of Peking. The Ch'ing Dynasty is gone, the Republic is in, foreigners still favor the Western Hills, and flea markets are piled high with ornate finger-nail caps of metal and horn, and other decadent traditonal cultural symbols modern China is quick to abandon. In an isolated American compound adjacent to a monastery in the Hills the first victim dies of a small, precise, neck wound from finger-nail cover ...... This mystery by journalist and writer Vincent Starrett (1886 - 1974) is dedicated to several good friends, all in Peking. They include Eleanor and Own… Read More

Lantern Press, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Ed. First ed. Very good/Good condition, slight over all wear to book, moderate over all wear to dustjacket, small tears and crinkles along top and bottom edges of dustjacket. .

New York: Lantern Press, Inc., 1946. 319 pages. Pages clean, v/g condition. Title page worn at spine. White endpapers clean. Blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Head/tail of spine and corners very lightly worn. Black and white dust jacket illusrated on upper cover. Edges worn. VG+/VG. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good.

London: Walter Edwards, 1947. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Starrett's detective novel, written during his year-long stay in Beijing and a self-confessed "roman á clef with a vengeance. Friends and acquaintances made up the dramatis personae and the fictional murderer was myself." First published under the title THE LAUGHING BUDDHA in 1937, the novel met with greater success upon its reissue a decade later under the new title MURDER IN PEKING. 7'' x 4.75''. Original beige cloth. In original unclipped (7s 6d) dust jacket. Light wear to boards and jacket. Leaves toned.

London: Walter Edwards, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English edition? Cheap wartime paper toned, very good or better in very good dust jacket, with tiny nicks, and an added publisher's price label on the spine. Thirteen Caucasian men and women, including a mystery writer and a Hollywood director, attend a party given by a beautiful Chinese woman in a rented Buddhist temple. A scarce edition, presumably issued in a very small print run.

New York: Lantern Press, Inc., Publishers, 1946., 1946. First edition. First Lantern Press edition. Originally published in 1937 using the title The Laughing Buddha Fine bright copy in dust jacket lightly soiled on white rear cover and with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities. A weekend house party given by an American woman in a rented Buddhist temple in the lonely Western Hills of China near the ancient city of Peking is the scene of a fantastic murder and this murder is not to be the last.