Latest Updates - Ernest Bramah

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Comment by ppint.:

max carrados #2:

#1: ''max carrados'' (1914), q.v. for series(?) listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

the virginiola fraud (short)
the disappearance of marie severe (short)
the secret of dunstan's tower (short)
the mystery of the poisoned dish of mushrooms (short)
the ghost at massingham mansions (novelette)
the missing actresses sensation (short)
the ingenious mr. spinola (short)
the kingsmouth spy case (novella)
the eastern mystery (short)

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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books p/b first printing, believed first p/b edition

original collection of nine max carrados stories varying from short stories to novelette and a novella

cover (& d-j) art none
cover (d-j) price 6d.
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

max carrados #1:
(i'm unsure whether to typify these as constituting a series:
they all feature max carrados, parkinson, his sighted investigator, and mr. greatorex, his secretary;
but whether there's any definite sequentiality - other than that of their original publication order...)

#1: ''max carrados'' (1914), (this collection)
#2: ''the eyes of max carrados'' (1923), q.v.
#3: ''max carrados mysteries'' (1927), q.v.
#4: ''the bravo of london'' (1934), q.v.
#5:: ''best max carrados detective stories'' (1972), q.v.
#6: ''four max carrados detective stories'' (2004), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books p/b first printing, probably first p/b edition

collection of four novelettes and three short stories featuring max carrados, the blind detective

cover art none
cover price 6d.
192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

likely issued with near-identical d-j carrying cover price, as card cover bears none
''penguin-with-stomach-ache dancing to its left'' logo

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Comment by ppint.:

kai lung series #1:

#1: ''the wallet of kai lung'' (1900), (this collection)
#2: ''kai lung's golden hours'' (1922), q.v.
#3: ''kai lung unrolls his mat'' (1928), q.v.
#4: ''the moon of much gladness'' (1932), q.v.
#5: ''kai lung beneath the mulberry tree'' (1940), q.v.
#6: ''kai lung raises his voice'' (2010), q.v.

omnibus edition of #1, #2 & #3:
#O1: ''the kai lung omnibus'' (1936), q.v.

there are some further titles that collect a limited number of kai lung stories from the above collections, sometimes as few as two stories; #6 incorporates all of the six stories collected in the very limited edition ''kai lung: six'' (1974), plus many more - all° - of the previously uncollected stories (° - iiuc).

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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books first printing, first p/b edition, issued in matching paper d-j

cover (& d-j) art none
cover (d-j) price 6d.
256pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

kai lung #4:

#1: ''the wallet of kai lung'' (1900), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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Comment by ppint.:

cassel & co. h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned
cover (d-j) price 7/6d
320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc., bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards


distinguish from second(?) edition 1934
cover (d-j) price 2/6d
indicia publishing history adds line stating date of this cheaper edition

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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books p/b third printing, 1949; so this bookcat item should^W has been re-dated 1949

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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books p/b first printing, first general p/b edition, possibly first p/b edition
with preface by hilaire belloc retained from grant richards h/cvr first edition (1922)

cover (& d-j) art none
cover (d-j) price 6d
286pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

distinguish from near-identical reprintings by reference to the indicia publishing history
which progressively adds lines stating reprinting date

third printing 1940

eventually d-j is dropped and cover price is printed on front card cover; cover price starts rising also