The Mask of Fu Manchu

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Author: Sax Rohmer [PSEUD Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959)] from the library of Larry McMurtry with signed letter from the author Year: 1932 Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc Place: Garden City Description: x-330 pages with frontispiece and illustrations by John Richard Flanagan. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. From the library of Larry McMurtry . with signed letter from the author. First American edition.. Small letter to I W Chip of Coventry signed Sax Rohmer with envelope. After discovering the tomb of El Mokanna - the Veiled Prophet - and retrieving the precious relics buried there, the eminent archaeologist Sir Lionel Barton blows up the tomb. The heretic sect faithful to Mokanna interpret the fireball as their prophet's second coming, and a violent uprising begins. Meanwhile, the insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu senses an opportunity to use the powerful relics for his own evil ends. The action stretches from Persia to Cairo, then back to London, including an extraordinary confrontation inside of the Great Pyramid. Along the way his opponents face Ogboni killers, mind-control drugs, dervishes, and a "ghost mosque." The Mask of Fu Manchu was an American pre-Code adventure film directed by Charles Brabin. Written by Irene Kuhn, Edgar Allan Woolf and John Willard, it is based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Sax Rohmer (the s

• Binding: Hardcover

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