Book Condition: Fine - Lower spine edge bumped. Pencil price in upper corner of front fly leaf. Dust Jacket Condition: About Fine - Scuffed front and back. Crease across lower front. Upper and lower spine edges scraped with color missing and spine scuffed along front of jacket. Upper and lower edges scraped with slight random chips. Authors: Frank Gruber Edition: First edition Publisher: E. P. Dutton Location: NY Date: 1969 Features: Fine/Near Fine.Frank Gruber was a tremendously Prolific and popular Pulp writer who successfully made the transition from the pulps to Televison and Movies as a screen writer. He wrote for most of the pulp magazines including Black Mask. He created Detective series characters such as Oliver Quade "the Human encyclopedia", Simon Lash Private detective and johnny Fletcher amongst others. He was also very prolific in the western pulps. He was the the screen writer for many western and other televison shows. This item is from the Robert Weinberg Collection. Robert Weinberg is a well-known and respected author, editor and collector. We are honored to sell his tremendous collection of First Editions, rare pulps, digests, paperbacks and related ephemera. |