By Harold Lamb

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1940.

First edition, first printing.

1940 date printed to the title page, "First edition" statement to the copyright page.

Illustrated with a 'Cycle of 12 Beasts' facsimile, four maps: one to each end-sheet, and two internal red and black map plates.

A detailed narrative history, brought to life with dialogue and some characters' inner thoughts, of the Steppes and the thirteenth century
Mongol Khans, with conclusion histories in the fourteenth century of Asia, Russia, and new empires.

Tiny cream dot to the outer upper page edges, small tan soil-smudge to the lower inside corner of the front cover, a very short creased tear to lower edge of two pages, else very good plus in beige-tweed linen with black and burnished-red embossed illustration of a sword-wielding Khan on a rearing horse to the front cover and with black titles and elaborate decorations in black and burnished-red to the spine, map-illustrated lightly age-toned end-papers; lacking a dust jacket.

Thick octavo; 389 pages; afterword; index.

(NO Book Club impressed dot code to the lower rear cover).

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