Betty Bouthoul's Le Grand Maître des Assassins (1936)

Paris, France: Librairie Armand Colin (book), 1936.
8.125" x 6" x 8.75", 232 pages, rebound in half-leather.

The 1936 edition of Betty Bouthoul's Le Grand Maître des Assassins (The Great Master of the Assassins), a book on Hassan-i-Sabbah and the Hashishins. A book that had a significant influence on William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin (i.e. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted.").  WSB-related, not containing.

This is a re-bound copy in half-leather binding, with marbled covers and tooled spine with gilt lettering.