Title: The World of Suzie Wong
Author: Richard Mason
Edition: Collins, 1957 first edition
Format: Hardcover (black boards), with dust jacket
Publisher: Collins (London)
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: About 382
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1957
Genre: Literary Fiction, Romance, Hong Kong Novel
Condition: Good
Description:
The World of Suzie Wong is Richard Mason’s 1957 novel of a love affair between Robert, a British artist, and Suzie, a young Chinese bar-girl, set in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong in the mid-1950s. Mason wrote it after a stay in Hong Kong in 1956, and it became a bestseller and was adapted as a Broadway play and as the 1960 film with William Holden and Nancy Kwan. This copy is the Collins hardcover from the year of publication, with its striking illustrated dust jacket in green, red and blue. It is a classic of 1950s British fiction about the East, and collectors look for it in the original jacket. The jacket is bright and in good condition, with only light wear.
Title: The World of Suzie Wong
Author: Richard Mason
Edition: Collins, 1957 first edition
Format: Hardcover (black boards), with dust jacket
Publisher: Collins (London)
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: About 382
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1957
Genre: Literary Fiction, Romance, Hong Kong Novel
Condition: Good
Description:
The World of Suzie Wong is Richard Mason’s 1957 novel of a love affair between Robert, a British artist, and Suzie, a young Chinese bar-girl, set in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong in the mid-1950s. Mason wrote it after a stay in Hong Kong in 1956, and it became a bestseller and was adapted as a Broadway play and as the 1960 film with William Holden and Nancy Kwan. This copy is the Collins hardcover from the year of publication, with its striking illustrated dust jacket in green, red and blue. It is a classic of 1950s British fiction about the East, and collectors look for it in the original jacket. The jacket is bright and in good condition, with only light wear.
