THE POET AND THE LUNATICS: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF GABRIEL GALE. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-269 [270: blank], publisher's lavender cloth stamped in gold, printed paper label affixed to front panel, top edge stained lavender, fore-edge rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. First U.S. edition. Eight stories, first published in NASH'S MAGAZINE in 1921, featuring Gabriel Gale, an eccentric poet and philosophical detective who employs his gift of empathy to solve or prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. Hubin (1994), p. 159. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 21. Publisher's review slip laid in. Touch of fade to spine panel, a nearly fine copy. (#177154).
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