The Magic Bird of Chomo-Lung-Ma : Tales of Mount Everest, the Turquoise Peak

Sybille Noel

Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1931

[Rare First Edition with jacket.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Gift inscription, possibly by author. Pages unmarked. 310 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm. 

"Chomo-Lung-Ma is Mt. Everest, the giant peak that has defied so many explorers. Tibetans say that the Watchdogs of Chomo-Lung-Ma guard their Lady of the Turquoise Peak and warn her when strangers approach. They say that there are all kinds of evil spirits round Chomo-Lung-Ma, that so long as man is tainted with even a suspicion of sin, his sin will awaken to evil the evil in the demons and spirits of the mountain; for none may approach but those who are as pure as the mountain's snows."