Abdullah, Achmed. STEEL AND JADE. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-319 [320: blank], original yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. Collection of a dozen short stories, some with fantastic elements. Oriental adventure stories of the kind he wrote for the pulps. The author was born in Russia but moved to England and changed his name to suit the kind of material he wished to write. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-1. Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968 (1974), p. 1. Bleiler (1948), p. 17. Not in Bleiler (1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Small private owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Small picture of Abdullah and short biographical note tipped onto half title page. Top edge of text block just a bit dusty, else a fine copy in very good three-color pictorial dust jacket with mild dust soiling to white spine and rear panels, and remnants of tiny colored stickers at bottom edges of front and rear panels and flaps which were used originally to hold the jacket in place (these are not obtrusive). (#115860)

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