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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.
THE MALABAR MAGICIAN ...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-344 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "911" inserted at rear, title page printed in red and black, original red cloth, spine and front panels stamped in gold, color pictorial paper inlay on front panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Episodic novel set in imperial India, mostly criminal investigations of inspector Hillary, aided by the Kurumba, a fakir with genuine supernatural powers. Magical feats include clairvoyance and induced hallucinations, conjuring bats out of thin air, and giving a miscreant the soul of a monkey. Suspected were-leopard exposed as cunning murderer. Not bad, but not Kipling either. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1299. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 174. Bleiler (1978), p. 156. Reginald 11302. Hubin (1994), p. 637.