The Mask of A Lion

A.T.W. Simeons

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, NY, 1952

About this Item

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. Seller Inventory # 015779

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mask of A Lion

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Good +

Edition: 1st Edition