DR. CYCLOPS. New York: Phoenix Press Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], publisher's red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained yellow green, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940. Reginald 08491. Some tanning along the gutter margin of the front free endpaper, a clean, very good copy in very good dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap with light wear and short closed tears along top and bottom edges, 30 mm closed tear along the upper edge of the front flap fold extending slightly into the right edge of the front panel, and dust soiling to rear panel. A much better than average copy of this book. From the library of a well-known mystery writer with his library stamp on the front paste-down. (#176487).
Price: $1,500.00
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