THE BLACK SPEAR. Cleveland, Ohio, New York City: The World Publishing Company, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-220 [221-224: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves used as paste-downs and free endpapers], original blue-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red. First edition. Boys' mystery fiction. African explorer returns to America with the Great Black Spear of Iang which is regarded as something holy and terrible by the native Unagis, a very superstitious people. Murder and mayhem ensues. A sequel was obviously planned, but does not appear to have been published. Second book in the Boys Detective Series. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 232. Text block (printed on pulp paper stock) age-darkened, else a clean, tight, near fine copy. (#94998).
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