Bat-Wing by Rohmer, S. [pseud. for A.S. Ward] - 1925

Garden City, N.Y., and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Company, Inc., 1921. First U.S. edition. Impression of name and address at front free end paper, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with several tiny closed tears and creases to front panel, mild wear to spine ends with some shallow loss and slight age toning, half to rear flap missing. Scarce in jacket. (30806). pp. [iii-v] vi [1-2] 3-333 [334: colophon] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Arthur Schwieder, title page printed in orange and black, original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. From the rear panel; "The death curse of the High Priest of Voodoo lurks over this story." Novel featuring Paul Harley, "probably the nearest approach to the pure detective-story that Sax ever made ..." - Van Ash and Rohmer, Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer, p. 132. Hubin (1994), p. 695. Day, p. 5.