REAL DETECTIVE TALES & MYSTERY STORIES - VOL.12, NO.4 (JANUARY, 1928)
Chicago: Real Detective Tales, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Item #8868
Quarto (bedsheet, 28.25cm); original pictorial wrappers; 96pp; illus. Light wear, with an old, faint damp mark at lower spine and along right edge of lower rear wrapper (affecting 1.5cm at lower edge of textblock); text is uniformly lightly tanned without being brittle; Very Good+.
Well-preserved issue of this successor title to Detective Tales (1922-24), which ran for 68 issues between 1924-1931. Contents include contributions by Stanley Shaw, Jack Spradling, Peter Perry, John Matter, Seabury Quinn, Hamilton Craigie, Altemus Calloway, and others. Cover by Norwegian-American artist Andrew Bensen (1902-1976). 8868.
Price: $300.00