Talbot Mundy - THE NINE UNKNOWN © 1924 - A. L. Burt Remastered Jacket

Description: eBay Listing - Newport Vintage Books - Talbot Mundy - The Nine Unknown - Dustjacket The Nine Unknown Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included] Talbot Mundy (J. Clement Coll Artwork) © 1924 Bobbs Merrill - A.L. Burt Printing - (1st) Jimgrim #1 & Chullunder Ghose #1 High Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproduction of Original Dustjacket We will be offering a selection of several more Talbot Mundy digitally remastered dustjackets in our eBay listings !! Here is a nice opportunity to enjoy the original artwork while saving on the cost of an original dustjacket. See my listings for more. Several different classic PhotoPlay & mystery jackets available. All digitally remastered dustjackets are shipped in a removable, Brodart or Demco archival dustjacket protector, and are ready to place on your book. Due to the scarcity of this dustjacket, I have added an embossed digital watermark to these images to avoid unauthorized duplication. The embossed watermark will NOT appear over the artwork on the front panel. The counter-stamps identifying this as a reproduction WILL appear discretely on the flaps only. About Postage: Combined shipping: Dustjackets are shipped boxed & wrapped via USPS First Class Parcel. First remastered dustjacket is $3.00. Each additional dustjacket is only 50c. Any extra postage charged at eBay checkout will be refunded. About Title: This Talbot Mundy novel is a triple cross-over of his three most famous characters ... Jimgrim [James Schuyler Grim], Athelstan King [from Khyber Rifles] and Chullunder Ghose. "The Nine Unknown" is the story of a gigantic secret organization in India of the same name. At the head of the organization are nine persons, each of whom is secretly elected by the other eight whenever a vacancy occurs. Each of the nine members has nine lieutenants and each of these lieutenants has another step down -- and so on indefinitely. Only the "Nine Unknown" know the other members of the organization and none of his nine knows any of the others. The plot centres around a group of ancient books and the disappearance of an enormous sum of gold each year. A strangely assorted group of men, consisting of English, natives and Mongols, band themselves together to find the books and recover the gold. This develops into strife between the "Nine Unknown" and their opponents. A mystery story that is far out of the ordinary, baffling solution and holding attention until the very last. References: There are three primary resources for more on Talbot Mundy: 1) Taves, Brian: TALBOT MUNDY: PHILOSOPHER OF ADVENTURE - A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC (2005). 2) Grant, Donald M.: TALBOT MUNDY: MESSENGER OF DESTINY, Grant Publishers, West Kingston, RI (1983). 3) Ellis, Peter B.: THE LAST ADVENTURER: THE LIFE OF TALBOT MUNDY, Grant Publishers, West Kingston, RI (1984). About Author: Talbot Mundy [William Lancaster Gibbon] (1879-1940) was born in London, England. He spent most of the decade of the 1900s overseas in India and East Africa before arriving in the United States in late 1909. Soon, he turned to writing serials for Adventure which would continue for several decades. He has been described as "one of the bestselling writers of adventure-fiction of his day." He would go on to write 47 novels plus 130 novelettes and short stories. His most famous adventure novels were King of the Khyber Rifles, C.I.D. and Jimgrim.

Price: 16 USD

Location: Fairhaven, Massachusetts

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