THE PAINTED DEATH. London, Edinburgh, Paris, Toronto, New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., [1935]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi 1-279, 280-282: ads, publisher's orange cloth, spine panel stamped in blue. First edition. Fantastic mystery thriller in which the protagonist travels up the Amazon to Aguarunas, a savage stronghold ruled by Queen Zenolotar. "Novel of mystery and lost race adventure -- a kingdom of Amazons in South America." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 179. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 1001. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 663. Top edge of pages dusty, a bit of soiling to front panel, a very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges, several short edge tears, rubbing to spine imprint, small chip from front panel at upper edge near front flap fold, dust soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. Publisher's file copy with "Stereo Plates Destroyed / December 1948" handwritten on the front free endpaper along with a printed sticker reading "All letterpress scrapped 1948." From the library of a well-known mystery writer with his library stamp on the front paste-down. (#176476).
Price: $150.00
"First published, October 1935" on copyright page.