The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu
London: Methuen, (1913).
Price: $3,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth gilt. Publisher's advertisements at rear dated Spring 1913 and May 1913. Scattered foxing in the text, some soiling on the board, very good or better lacking the rare dustwrapper. Housed in an older cloth folding case. The first Fu Manchu novel.
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Sax Rohmer
birth name: Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward
born: 2/15/1883
died: 6/1/1959
Biography
Internationally popular British writer who created the sinister Chinese criminal genius Fu Manchu. Rohmer was interested from childhood in ancient Egypty, the Middle East, and the occult. After working briefly in the financial district of London and as a journalist there, his growing interest in the Far East led him into fiction writing. He published Dr. Fu Manchu, the first of the series, in 1913. The inscrutable and aristocratic Fu immediately caught the public's fancy, and Rohmer wrote several more novels over the next 45 years, gradually transforming him from an entirely self-serving villain into a dedicated anti-communist. The character also appeared in motion pictures, radio, and television. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore