first edition
1933 · New York
by Whitfield, Raoul; William Heaslip [Illustrations]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition. [xii], 191, [1] pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in navy. Very Good with faint cup ring to front board, edges foxed, contents toned with age, two small star stamps to title page and frontis. In an attractive example of the rare dust jacket with no fading, a little dust-soiled, foxed, and lightly edge-worn, Very Good+. Juvenile fiction by the mysterious American writer whose hardboiled crime stories for Black Mask were some of the most acclaimed in the magazine's run. Rare in its colorful dust jacket.
(Inventory #: 140941540)