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BLACK MASK.
Chicago: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Edgar A. Whitney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Steve Fisher, Frederick C. Davis and others.
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by James Lunnon, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by W. T. Ballard, Steve Fisher, Frank Gruber, Frederick C. Davis and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. George Janes, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover by Carroll John Daly, Frank Gruber, Stewart Sterling and others, Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Cornell Woolrich, "After Dinner Story," Dwight Babcock, Steve Fisher and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
PHARAOH'S BROKER: BEING THE VERY REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES IN ANOTHER WORLD OF ISIDOR WERNER (WRITTEN BY HIMSELF). Edited, arranged, and with an Introduction by Ellsworth Douglass [pseudonym].
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-316 [317-320: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Victorian interplanetary novel. Second part recounts the adventures of two spacemen on Mars that are remarkably similar to those of Edgar Rice Burroughs's hero of A PRINCESS OF MARS (1912). "Among the more intelligent early interplanetary novels, unusual in its recognition of problems of parallel evolution as well as of the mechanics of space travel." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 602. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-351. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 351. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Locke, Voyages in Space 67. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 300. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 132-33. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 76. Bleiler (1978), p.68. Reginald 04481.