Word: costain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MONEYMAN (434 pp.)-Thomas B. Costain-Doubleday...
...Black Rose ("feudal England . . . exotic Cathay . . . forbidden love"), by Thomas B. Costain, reached and held first place on the lists, cost 20th Century...
...BLACK ROSE - Thomas B. Costain - Doubleday, Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor...