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SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 114, No. 4. Pulp magazine. Edited by Kenneth S. White. Cover art by Gordon Samstag. Includes "The Sword of Shinto" (novelette) by Sidney Herschel Small; "The Old Oil" (novelette) by Gordon MacCreagh; "The Betrayal of Bulkhead Bean" by Albert Richard Wetjen; "Charlie Lynxear and the Law" by Kern L. Perc; "Jebediah and the Saint" by Nard Jones; "Adam Was a Chump" by Coleman Meyer; "Hunter's Moon" by T. F. Tracy; "The Kunming Story" by James Atlas Phillips; "Chains for Columbus" (pt. 4 of 6) by Alfred Powers. Fact Stories: "Printing-Press Money" by R. Havelock-Bailie; "Rip-Snortin' Mountain Man" by C. W. Chamberlain. Departments: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Ask Adventure Experts"; "Lost Trails"; "The Trail Ahead". Illustrated by Frank Kramer, V. E. Pyles, Joseph Farren, Edd Ashe, John Meola, Harve Stein, L. Sterne Stevens, Ray Bethers, and Nick Eggenhofer. Foredge has been shallowly wet from mid to heel with shallow losses to rear cover, mild staining within. Otherwise nice. Book.…

Broschur. Condition: gut. 50 S., 23 cm, Bibliotheksexemplar, gebräunt. Sprache: eng.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Original wraps show minor wear, tear, and writing. Pages tanned.

First edition (per publisher's "First published in 1936" statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR JAMES FEIBLEMAN. 384 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 14.5cm. Blue dust jacket strongly toned at spine; some rubbing and light toning/foxing to panels; some chipping, tears, and wear at edges; front flap's bottom corner is clipped. Blue cloth; bumping to spine head and boards' top fore-edge corners; spine's gilt lettering remains vibrant. Dark blue top edge; foxing and soiling to fore-edge and bottom edge. Endpapers toned/foxed. Co-author's two-line ink inscription "For Mary Rose and Brad | from Jimmy" on front free endpaper with past bookseller's adjacent pencil notations; also laid-in at front endpapers is sheet with pencil note "Signed to Roark Bradford & wife" (by an unknown hand). Interior leaves slightly bumped at their top fore-edge corners but otherwise mostly clean. Binding is firm. Short story writer and novelist Roark Bradford resided in New Orleans in 1930s-1940 where he was an editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and, during World War II, was at New Orleans' lakefront U.S. Naval Reserve Bureau of Aeronautics Training. In 1946 Bradford was a visiting lecturer at Tulane University's English department. Feibleman likely first encountered Bradford in 1943 when he was hired by Tulane as an acting assistant professor of English to teach naval officers. Feibleman joined Tulane's philosophy department in 1945 and retired from the university in 1969. Likewise Julius Weis Friend was a New Orleanian and was editor of the city's renowned but short-lives literary magazine "The Double-Dealer.".…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1954 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 682 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 682 Volume 523 (1954) - 544 (1956).…