The Mask of Fu Manchu

Author: Sax Rohmer [PSEUD Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959)] from the library of Larry McMurtry  with signed letter from the authorYear: 1932Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company IncPlace: Garden CityDescription: 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 t