MORE LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1921]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 11-282 [283-286: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original pictorial orange cloth, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as WHISPERING WINDOWS: TALES OF THE WATERSIDE (1921). Burke's second collection of Limehouse stories, sequel to LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS (1916). Includes one supernatural tale, "The Scarlet Shoes." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Bleiler (1948), p. 66. Hubin (1994), p. 119. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15. A fine copy in worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket missing the spine panel. (#172448).
Price: $100.00
First printing has "GHD" monogram on copyright page.