In the original dust jacket. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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(Apart from black and white illustrations this book has three rare colour illustrations by Cawthra Mulock)

Hardback. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1951 Faber Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. near fine clean tight binding in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful 50’s jacket design and illustrations by Cawthra Mulock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cawthra Mulock (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrated with Cawthra Mulock’s black and white drawings throughout, along with three colour plates including the frontispiece. Very good in brick-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Slightly worn and bumped at head and tail of spine. In a very good illustrated dustwrapper. Cover bright. Spine tight. 160 pages including notes. 224 mm x 150 mm. “The Mystery of Dead Lovers” is a romance, a tale of an Indian king and his bride, of prophecies and strange voices and the dedication of a fair princess to the devoted service of her lord and lover. The reader is enticed into a remote oriental world by a skilfully told story and a well-constructed plot. A true picture of the East itself.’ 

Maurice Stewart Collis (10 January 1889 – 12 January 1973) was an administrator in Burma (Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. Few English writers have entered into the thought and tradition of the East with as much understanding as Maurice Collis. None can surpass him as a guide to its enchantment.

CAWTHRA MULOCK (CANADIAN, 1915-1998):

Cawthra Mulock’s illustrations sell between £50 to £450.

Warning: This book was part of the erotic library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG, along with medical friends and family involved in Freudian research. Sexual instincts or drives have deeply hidden roots in the unconscious mind. Instincts act by giving vitality and enthusiasm to the mind through meaning and purpose. The range of instincts is in great numbers. Freud expressed them in two categories. One is Eros, the self-preserving life instinct containing all erotic pleasures. While Eros is used for basic survival, the living instinct alone cannot explain all behavior, according to Freud. In contrast, Thanatos is the death instinct. It is full of self-destruction of sexual energy and our unconscious desire to die. The main part of human behavior and actions is tied back to sexual drives. Since birth, the existence of sexual drives can be recognized as one of the most important incentives of life. The enclosed book was part of this research. A photograph is enclosed, should you seek further details please contact Martin Frost on martin.frost@gmail.com