The Great Prince Shan

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922. Second Little, Brown, and Company printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 303pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards with black ink stamping. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the spine is very subtly faded. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist. Oppenheim (1866-1946) was known for his suspense fiction and he is considered to be one of the originators of the thriller genre. He published at least 160 novels from 1887 until just before his death. "The Great Prince Shan" is a novel with diplomatic plotting and high life in the near future (1934).