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The Yellow Seven

Edmund Snell

Edmund Snell (1889-1972) was a writer of thrillers and mysteries, many set in Asia. He liked to use a colour in the title of his books. This novel is set in Borneo. The novel was serialised before publication in book form in the The Red Magazine begining in issue 320 in September 1922.




First edition

Bibliography code:TFU-23.14i

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin

Series: none

Year: 1923

Format: 8vo

Pages: 304

Binding: Dark brown cloth with title and author in yellow, number 7 in yellow over a figure in an impressed circle; title, author and publiser in yellow on the spine

Size: 192 x 135 mm

Dust jacket: signed Blam, lower right

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 7 shillings 6 pence

Printing history: First edition

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Printed by: Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and Esher

Notes: The jacket illustrated above is marked second impression, but the book is the first edition. My copy has a sticker inside the front cover of: W.H. Smith and Son, English Booksellers, 248, Rue de Rivoli, PARIS.





Canadian edition

Bibliography code:TFU-23.14ii

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Company, Toronto

Series: none

Year: no date3

Format: 8vo

Pages: 304

Binding: Dark brown cloth with title and author in yellow, number 7 in yellow over a figure in an impressed circle; title, author and publiser in yellow on the spine

Size: 192 x 135 mm

Dust jacket: signed Blam, lower right

Internal illustrations: none

Price: not known

Printing history: not stated

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Printed by: Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and Esher

Notes: This edition was printed in Great Britain, so is the same as the first edition shows above, but it gives no publishing history. The only difference is the name of the publisher on the title page and spine of the book and jacket.