Queen's Quorum
Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown.
London: Grant Richards Limited, 1916.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Queen's Quorum. Original terra cotta cloth, some rubbing, minor browning. From the library of B. W. Heubsch, the American publisher, with his signature on the endpaper. NCBEL 4:545; Queen's Quorum 58; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
Item #29271
Refused by 12 publishers before Grant Richards accepted it. These are the first published tales by Burke of London's East End.