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The Mask of A Lion
by A.T.W. Simeons
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good +
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$45.55A$31.88
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1952 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1952. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to tail; light shelfwear to tips. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($3.50); chipping and missing small pieces are head and tail; light wear to tips; rubbing to panels. Confetti paper over boards with green cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt and black lettering on the spine. 305 pp 8vo. This is a shattering, powerful, humane novel about the India unknown to most Westerners. The book is a novel centered on leprosy, as disease the author as a doctor in a large Indian hospital, knows very well. Govind, a tailor, contracts leprosy, and is driven out of his home to join the world of the lepers. He meets Bapu, the leper leader, and becomes his horse and learns about the leper world as he carries him about. Govind finds peace after many adventures in the arms of Seeta, a young girl who is immune to leprosy. She goes north to bear their child and he goes seeking a new leprosarium to cure his disease and allow him to return to his wife. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015779
- Title
- The Mask of A Lion
- Author
- A.T.W. Simeons
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- leprosy, leprosarium, lepers in India, medical novel, medical fiction, leprosy cures, Bapu, Govind, India, medical treatment in India
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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