The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
New York: A.. Burt Company, 1914. Octavo, original green cloth with embossed illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 294 pp., an additional 4 pp. of publisher's advertisement. Cloth thumbed, rubbed at spine ends, previous owner's inscription in black ink 'Robert Fahnestock, Chambersburg, Pa.' on front free-endpaper, hinge split with netting apparent; otherwise a good copy in dust-jacket. First American edition.
Arthur Henry 'Sarsfield' Ward, Sax Rohmer, was a prolific British music hall comedy sketch writer, poet, and fiction writer. Rohmer's interests for ancient Egypt, East Asia, the Middle East, and the occult led him into fiction writing.
Filled with stereotypes, overt racism, and sexism, Rohmer's novel is a product of its time and offers a window into the paranoia and fears of both its author for whom the newly-gained independence of former "subject" countries could only bring about a desire for revenge and retribution.
In The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, which does not belong to Rohmer's Fu Manchu series, the author once again creates a story opposing Eastern and the Western civilisation. Only this time it is not the Chinese mastermind, Dr. Fu Manchu, that Scotland Yard must stop but Hassan of Aleppo, the guardian of the Sacred Relics of Mohammed, whom, with his group of Hashshashin have been mutilating whoever tries to steal the relic. Item #4993
Price (AUD): $200.00