Ernest Bramah: Bibliography

The Return of Kai Lung

MB No. SS Number Description
A.17.b Return-A1 First American Printing 1937

IMAGES

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DISCUSSION

Full Title:

[row of thirteen devices] | The Return of | KAI LUNG | BY ERNEST BRAMAH | Author of "Kai Lung's Golden Hours" and | "The Wallet of Kai Lung" | [device] | SHERIDAN HOUSE • NEW YORK | [row of thirteen devices]

Publication:

New York: Sheridan House, 1937

Binding:

Yellow cloth decorated and lettered in green, 8¼ inches x 5¾ inches, pp.319

Spine: [title in a meandering rule] THE | RETURN | OF | KAI LUNG | [device] ERNEST | BRAMAH | [rule] | SHERIDAN | HOUSE | [rule]

Front cover: [in a meandering rule] THE | RETURN | OF | KAI LUNG

(see image above).

Notes:

It looks like Sheridan House wanted to make sure that the American readers recognized that this was a Kai Lung book, and renamed The Moon of Much Gladness to make it more obvious.