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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
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
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.