Tales of Chinatown
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1922. Octavo, original red cloth with golden illustration on front cover, 376 pp. Cloth thumbed, rubbed at spine ends, otherwise a very good copy in dust-jacket. First American edition.
Arthur Henry 'Sarsfield' Ward, Sax Rohmer, was a prolific British music hall comedy sketch writer, poet, and fiction writer. Rohmer's interests for ancient Egypt, East Asia, the Middle East, and the occult led him into fiction writing.
Filled with stereotypes, overt racism, and sexism, Rohmer's novel is a product of its time and offers a window into the paranoia and fears of both its author for whom the newly-gained independence of former subject countries could only bring about a desire for revenge and retribution.
Tales of Chinatown is a short story collection with all of them set in London's Chinatown. Item #4995
Price (AUD): $300.00