REAL DETECTIVE TALES & MYSTERY STORIES - VOL.7, NO.3 (JUNE, 1925)
Chicago: Real Detective Tales, Inc., 1925. First Edition. Item #8857
Quarto (bedsheet, 28.25cm); original pictorial wrappers; 96pp; illus. Light edge wear, some small stress creases and tiny tears across spine, and a 1.5" closed tear extending from upper rear joint into rear wrapper; text is lightly tanned but not brittle; Very Good to 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 Harry E. MacPherson, Seabury Quinn, J. Fortune Reade, Stanley Walker, Edwin Samson, Richard Hart, and others. Cover art features a nostalgic jailhouse scene by American painter Raymond James Stuart. 8857.
Price: $275.00