The Gault Papers
The following information was compiled and posted to the Internet by the late R.T. "Ditch" Gault under the title "Bibliographic Information on Talbot Mundy's Tibetan, Jimgrim, and Tros Story Series." After Gault's death, the site disappeared. Yet the info it contained is quite valuable to readers of Talbot Mundy, and several sites had linked to Gault's information.
Thanks to Carl William Thiel, who had saved the info from Gault's site, I'm able to present it here. I've edited it slightly to provide some consistency in mechanics and grammar.
Also, to make using the information easier, I've broken the single, long file into four documents: "Mundy's Tibetan Stories," "Mundy's Jimgrim Saga," "Mundy's Tros Saga," and "Omnibus Editions & Nonfiction." Click on the titles here to go to the section you wish to see.
With thanks to Mike Chomko, publisher of the pulp fanzine Purple Prose, I was able to contact the Gault family. Karen Gault kindly responded in this manner:
"What a pleasant surprise to get your EMail! I enjoyed looking through your site and am happy that someone saved Ditch's site info on Mundy and is using it to reach an interested audience. You may use it with my blessing."
Our thanks to Mike and especially to Karen.
The information below wrapped up Gault's bibliographic material on Mundy. It appeared at the end of his other citations and comments. I've set it apart from the other sections, as its focus differs slightly from that of the other bibliographic areas he developed.
Talbot Mundy Omnibus Editions
1933. All Four Winds; Hutchinson and Co. (1933) 1232 pages. Contains King -- of the Khyber Rifles, Jimgrim, Black Light, and Om.
1936. Romances of India; A. L. Burt (1936) 1033 pgs. McCelland & Sewart (1936) 1033. Contains King -- of the Khyber Rifles, Guns of the Gods, and Told in the East (1923).
Nonfiction
1947. I Say Sunrise, no magazine publication. Published post- humuously. First British ed.: Andrew Dakers Ltd. (London, 1947), 182 pgs. First American ed.: Milton F. Wells (Philadelphia 1949), 187 pgs.
- Reprints: S. J. R. Saunders (Toronto 1949), 187 pgs. DeVorss & Co. (1964), 182 pgs., trade pb.; early printings of the DeVorss ed. had same cover as Dakers ed. My copy of DeVorss' 6th printing (1983) lists only the copyright date for 1947. DeVorss ed. is most likely a rpt. of the British first ed. Mundy's personal mystical philosophy.
Thus Spake the Devil, which he planned to publish under the pseudonym "Malloy Grayson." He was unable to sell it, and later completely rewrote the ms., and it is that version which was eventually published as I Say Sunrise. *(NOTE 1)
* NOTE:
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5. Peter Barresford Ellis, Last Adventurer, p. 208.
- R.T. Gault
Links:
Black Light is available in a paperback edition published by Ariel Press. You can learn more about it from Amazon. Click here.
The Black Mask site offers an e-text version of Guns of the Gods that you can read online or download in various e-text formats. Click here to visit the site.
Told in the East is available from Amazon in a new trade paperback edition published by Wildside Press. You can visit the site by clicking here.
Talbot Mundy: Messenger of Destiny by Donald M. Grant is also available from Amazon. This book may be in short supply. Click here to learn more from Amazon. Also, the book may still be available from the publisher, Donald M. Grant Books. Click here to visit the Grant site.
Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy by Peter Beresford Ellis is also available from Amazon. This biography may be in short supply. Click here to learn more from Amazon. Also, the book may still be available from the publisher, Donald M. Grant Books. Click here to visit the Grant site.
Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley has been reprinted in trade paperback format by Wildside Press. It's available at Amazon. Click here to learn more.
There is also a paperback edition published by Point Loma Publications, the Theosophical organization with which Mundy was associated. Its cover is shown above, by the 1923 citation for Om. You can see more about it at Amazon by clicking here.
The Black Mask site also offers an e-text version of Om that you can read online or download in various e-text formats. Click here to see it.
A very nice Donald M. Grant edition of King -- of the Khyber Rifles, published with great illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll, is also available from Amazon. Click here.
King is available from Amazon in a new trade paperback edition from Wildside Press. Click here to learn more.
The Black Mask site also offers an e-text version of King that you can read online or download in various e-text formats. Click here to visit the site.
Posted by ds at October 13, 2002 02:27 PM
