LUCAS MALET [ MARY ST LEGER KINGSLEY HARRISON ] — The Gateless Barrier

London, Eveleigh Nash. 1922, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Dark red cloth, spine dull, corners a little worn; endpapers brown, some foxing, mostly on edges. Nash's Great Novel Library. 350 pages. Young man has a romance with a ghost. Short preface from Lafcadio Hearn, "..we call it Mu-Mon-Kwan, which means 'The Gateless Barrier'. It is one of the books especially studied by the Zen sect, or the sect of Dhyana.." Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison, daughter of Charles Kingsley. This novel first published 1900. Good/No Jacket.