John Masters: The Venus of Konpara/1960 1st edition

 

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York 1960

 

Hardcover: 338pp; 1st edition; with DJ

 

Condition: ex-library; dark blue linen boards; silver design on front cover; silver lettering on spine; DJ intact in library protector; unmarked internals; deckle edges; faint unfading at top and bottom cover edges; decorated end papers with map of the region around the Compare Cliffs

 

In this novel John Masters returns to Victorian India, the scene and time of his earliest works. He draws heavily on his experience as one born in Calcutta in 1914, and in his time of service in the Indian Army, the fifth generation of his family to do so.

 

Measures: 8 1/2” x 6” x 1 1/2”; weighs 1lb 8oz; online at $12 for an inferior copy

 

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