Author: Courtney, Margo.
Title: The Painted Mask.
Description: Melbourne Surrey Press, 1955. Australian ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (small edge tears, rear cover lightly marked, light rubbing spine), pages lightly toned. 288 pp. An absorbing novel of powerful drama, intrigue and tender romance - involving a paleontologist and a Chinese mandarin - with a background of strange primitive people, weird rites, brilliant ceremonies, glittering pagan temples - in remote, hostile Katmandu, capital of Nepal.

Keywords: general fiction, earth sciences, paleontology, palaeontology, asia, nepal, collectible, collectable


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