Talbot Mundy - KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES © 1916 - MTI

Description: eBay Listing - Newport Vintage Books - Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles - Dustjacket King of the Khyber Rifles - Movie Tie-In [Basis for 1929 Fox film The Black Watch starring Victor McLaglen & Myrna Loy] Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included] Talbot Mundy (J. Clement Coll Artwork) © 1916 Bobbs-Merrill - A.L. Burt Printing- (1st) Athelstan King #1 [of 3] High Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproductionof 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 Ground Advantage [new version of First Class Parcel]. Shipping for 1 or 2 remastered dustjackets is $4.00. 3 or 4 dustjackets ship for an additional 50c, $4.50 5 or 6 dustjackets ship for an additional 50c, $5.00 More than 6 dustjackets, please request shipping quote. At checkout, buyer may request invoice or pay directly, and any extra postage charged at eBay checkout will be refunded. About Dustjackets: The dustjacket offered in this auction is digitally scanned from a high quality original. The master is then carefully restored to remove any minor imperfections. This significantly enhances the eye appeal rather than just offering a color photocopy with flaws. Great care is taken to painstakingly retouch these images with emphasis on maintaining the full scope of the original artwork and preserving the texture and granularity of the original. The dustjacket is then printed on an industrial quality machine using premium paper to ensure the best quality possible ... this results in sharper, crisper images and much better color definition (tone, hue & saturation) than typically seen with pleasing results. About Title: If you would go to the heart of the Indian hills, deep into the Khinjan caves, there up beyond the Khyber Pass, where many have gone but none returned, then go with the King of the Khyber Rifles. There you will meet a mystery woman, who, smiling, rules the honeycombed caves that hang over the edge of Earth's Drink. Perhaps you will shrink in dread of the Mullah, who has no hair or eyelashes, and guards the door. In the grandeur, squalor, cruelty, charm and treachery of India, the India of teeming streets and magic palaces, Mr. Mundy has laid romance of perilous adventure in the secret service among the war-stirred, intriguing Northern border tribes. Through the story, runs the mystery of the dancing woman, who holds in the hollow of her hand the throbbings of the uneasy tribes. In her choice lies salvation for India. To see her dance is worth all the rest. Before the crowds in the great cave, with the stalactites glittering under the flare of torches, she is like the dawn touching the distant peaks. Like a blossom, she, the heart of the hills, holds her audience motionless until, springing upon an upraised shield, scarcely touching it with her naked toes, she leaps out of sight. Not once did the story drag, and the author crowds bewildering romance, one upon another. 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. About Movie: Captain Donald King [Victor McLaglen] of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there. The movie cast included: [Citation: Wikipedia & Internet Movie Database - IMDB] Actor/Actress: Role: Victor McLaglen Myrna Loy David Torrence David Rollins Cyril Chadwick Lumsden Hare Roy D'Arcy David Percy Mitchell Lewis Claude King Walter Long Francis Ford Frederick Sullivan Richard Travers Pat Somerset Joseph Diskay Joyzelle Joyner Gregory Gaye Mary Gordon Bob Kortman Tom London Jack Pennick Randolph Scott Phillips Smalley Lupita Tovar John Wayne Capt. Donald Gordon King Yasmani Field Marshal Lt. Malcolm King Maj. Twynes Colonel of the Black Watch Rewa Ghunga Soloist, Black Watch Officer Mohammed Khan General in India Harrim Bey Maj. MacGregor General's Aide Adjutant O'Connor, Black Watch Officer Muezzin Dancer a 42nd Highlander (uncredited) Sandy's Wife (uncredited) a 42nd Highlander (uncredited) a 42nd Highlander (uncredited) a 42nd Highlander (uncredited) a 42nd Highlander (uncredited) the Doctor (uncredited) in a Bit Part (uncredited) a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)

Price: 16 USD

Location: Fairhaven, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-08-17T04:56:25.000Z

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