About this title: 1928. The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lung ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1974
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Corner crease on cover, small chip on spine bottom and tape at top of spine, tight. xi, 244 p.; 18 cm. Cover art by Ian Miller. read more
Description: Paperback. First Printing. Tight Sound Copy In Very Good Condition. Previous Owner was A Smoker And There Is A Slight Smoky Odor To The Book. Three digit number written in ink on top edge of the book. read more
Edition: Early Penguin Edition
Binding: Perfect Bound
Publisher: Penguin, London
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very Good in G-V.G. jacket. Penguin in Jacket. 5" x 7" Penguin Books, No. 108, 3rd ptg of 1937 edition. Orange & white wraps, orange & white d.w. 249 pp.; 1939 Penguin cat. at rear. D.w. bit soiled, water-marked, binding tad cocked, tad rumpled along b.e. & at front, aroma of old mildew persists, still a decent-looking copy. Bramah's charming stories included in this volume: "The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub", "The Story of Wong Tsoi and the Merchant Teen King's Thumb", "The Story of ... read more
Publisher: Penguin Books Pub, London
Date Published: 1928, 1954 oct
Description: VERY GOOD Condition, Paper toning some. 4x7" Paper Covers 256pg Kai Lung's entertaining tales....Polished, imperturbable phrases. comic irony. " Author Photo back cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1954
Description: Fair. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Penguin orange 108. Some darkening to the covers. Moderate wear to the spine. Some fold marks to the cover. Post Typically 1-2 days UK, 2-7 days Worldwide. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Richards Press, London
Date Published: c1928 1942
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth covers with light soiling, board corners bumped. Later printing. Illustrated by. vii, 344 p. ; 20 cm. . Reprint read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: The Richards Press Ltd. Publishers,
Date Published: [1928]
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 344, original gray-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained gray. First edition. The third Kai Lung collection. "Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller who tells one of his tales whenever he gets into a tight spot [like Scheherezade, as Ashley points out]. Bramah's China bears about the same amount of resemblance to the real China as Walter Scott's England of Ivanhoe bears to the real English twelfth century..."-Waggoner, The Hills ... read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Blue hardback cloth cover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1935
Description: G: in Good condition without dustwrapper. Cover marked. Pages browning. Hinges weak. Light foxing. 320pp + 40pp ads: 170mm x 120mm (7" x 5") read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Richards Press, London
Date Published: 1946
Description: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Good+ copy in Good+ unclipped D/J. Jacket has some minor nicks to top/bottom edge, else clean. Copy has clean endpapers without inscriptions. Seller's label on rear endpaper. Light foxing top prelims. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The Richards Press, London
Date Published: 1942
Description: Good/Good. Ex-Library Fourth novel in the Kai Lung series. Usual library labels and stamps. Cover is plasic protected. In worn but solid condition-contents clean and tight to binding. read more
Edition: 1st UK ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Richards Press, London
Date Published: 1928
Description: Fair hardback (no dustjacket). Some scattered light foxing; spine browned; spine front joint very fragile, with 6cm split in cloth; spine bumped. read more
Description: Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 42-3. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-48. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 981. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 827-30. Reginald 01824. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Rubbing to edges, a very good copy. (#81943) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Doran, New York
Date Published: 1928
Description: Very Good in Very Good- jacket. 8vo. 320 pp. First U.S. Edition. Blue cloth on the spine; pictorial boards matching the dustjacket. Light chipping at the corners of the dustjacket and at the head and foot of the spine; small chip from the upper edge of the rear panel; fading on the spine; no interior markings. Scans are available for all books. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Doran, New York
Date Published: 1928
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Brightly illustrated pictorial boards with blue cloth spine, pastedown title label on spine, small pierced hole in front panel, cover edges somewhat rubbed, as is spine joint, head pushed, book stands squarely. Stylized name and date in pencil on free endpaper. Dust jacket is bright but shows considerable wear and chipping with inch and a half loss at spine tail and on center of front fold. Back flap of jacket has ads for the first two Kai Lung books. read more
Description: First American edition, first printing; original pictorial boards with blue cloth backstrip & tips (hardcover), fine in a very good dust jacket *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* read more
Edition: First American edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1928
Description: Owner's three-line ink inscription on front flyleaf, else a very good copy in striking pictorial dust jacket. The jacket's spine is moderately browned, with one-inch chip at crown (causing loss of lettering, "KAI, " in title), with few other small... BRAMAH, Ernest. KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT. Octavo, cloth spine, decorated paper-covered boards, pp. viii, 320. read more
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