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Franklin Library LEATHER edition of John P. Marquand's "Mr. Moto's Three Aces," a Limited edition, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1980. Bound in blue leather, the book has matching silk end leaves, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. John P. Marquand, who lived from 1893-1960, was born in Long Island, New York, but the family was forced to leave their gorgeous home overlooking L.I. Sound, their cook, lady's maid, nurse, waitress, coachman, gardener, and their horse, Prince, to become the poor relations at the old family estate in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Marquand graduated from HARVARD in 1915. Marquand loved writing the spy tale. The three works comprising "Mr. Moto's Three Aces" are set in the Orient. Marquand was fascinated by the household gods, evil spirits, and soothsayers he found there. In China, a fortune-teller with a long Mandarian mustache pleaded with Marquand to grow one of his own, and he complied. China was the perfect place for a Westerner to set a spy-versus-spy adventure. 624 pages. I offer Combined shipping.