Lisping Man by Rawlings Frank (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Hercules Publishing Corp.,1944. Paperback.Scarce. Cover has moderate shelfwear, crease on back cover, spine lines, tiny tears at spine ends. Pages are clean and unmarked, toned. Binding is tight. Very nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback as issued, abt fine with slight stain at top page edges.(VV2/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of the only mystery novel by this author. No dustjacket. Light edge wear. Slight spine slant. In very good condition.

First paperback edition. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. This is based on the short novel "Calling the Ghost" in the pulp magazine THE GHOST, SUPER DETECTIVE (January, 1940) which was the first appearance of the Ghost, magician detective George Chance. In the book versions revised by Fleming-Roberts the hero pulp trappings were abandoned with George Chance just being a magician with the detecting as a hobby. First published in hardcover with the revisions by Gateway in 1942, it was revised again for this paperback publication. The author was reportedly not happy with either and used a pseudonym. Light wear to lower corners, small closed tear at lower left corner at spine, reading crease, spine leaned, a very good or slightly better copy. (24541).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.75 x 5.25", cloth, 256pp, covers rubbed, spine browned, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a little cocked, pp toned, front flap from missing dustjacket tipped-in on inside front cover, some removal marks inside rear cover (ex-library?). FIRST EDITION (NAP). SCARCE title.

First Edition. "Baffling events never piled up quicker than the night George Chance, wealthy master magician, planned his honeymoon with his bride, Merry. He was ready to retire to private life, or so he thought, until his bodyguard, Joe Harper, reminded him that Harper, too, went right along on whatever honeymoon there was to be. For the urbane master magician was also an expert in the science of criminology. And for his astute and remorseless detection in the past he was not exactly in the favor of a certain Chicago business firm, whose business was murder." Uncommon title by this pulp magazine author, here writing under a pseudonym. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at flap corners, top spine end with shallow chipping, about a dime sized chip at top front panel and at lower spine end.