Boston Blackie
- New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919
New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919. First edition. First edition. [ii], 318 pp. with illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's black cloth with dark orange stamping, lacking jacket. About Very Good with wear to extremities, a little dampstaining to cloth and top edge with slight waviness to top edge of textblock towards end of book, name written on paste down, a few light pencil checkmarks throughout.
The first in a popular series of crime novels featuring the titular jewel thief and safecracker, who became a detective in various radio and film adaptations. He was famously described as an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend" in those adaptations.
Details
Title
Boston Blackie
Author
Boyle, Jack; W.H.D. Koerner [Illustrations]
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
The H.K. Fly Company Publishers: New York
Date
1919
Edition
First edition