REAL DETECTIVE TALES & MYSTERY STORIES - VOL.6, NO.2 (JANUARY, 1925)
Chicago: Real Detective Tales, Inc., 1925. First Edition. Item #8855
Quarto (bedsheet, 28.25cm); original pictorial wrappers; 96pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, minute (1/8") loss to spine ends, text edges tanned but not brittle, with a half-dozen old, stray pencil marks to margins; Very Good+.
Early issue of this successor title to Detective Tales (1922-24), which ran for 68 issues between 1924-1931. Contents include contributions by Sewell Peasley Wright, Stanley Walker, Seabury Quinn, Francis D. Grierson, Merlin Moore Taylor, Hunter Stinson, Arthur Burks, and others. Cover art by Enrico "Rico" Tomaso (1898-1985), whose output illustrating American pulp magazines through the 1950s was truly prodigious. 8855.
Price: $300.00