Mind Reader by Roberts Adolphe, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. HC. Black cloth stamped in yellow. Good+. Light-mod. spine slant; light-mod. leaf crnr/edge staining that stays in margins; bright lettering; fairly clean/tight. No DW. Bleiler's CHECKLIST (1978); Reginald (12283).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-10] 11-277 [278-286: blank] [note: first and last four leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panel stamped in yellow. First edition. Weird mystery in which occult power to control the minds of the living and the materialized spirits of the dead is used by adept for evil purposes. Bleiler (1978), p. 168. Reginald 12283. Hubin (1994), p. 688. Tiny unobtrusive owner's stamp on front free endpaper and title page. Nice tight copy of this hard to find title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First Edition. 277 pages of text. Publisher's black cloth binding is slightly shelfworn, with a minor vertical crease to the spine. The final blank leaves have a tiny stain to the fore edge. The text is clean and unmarked. No dustjacket, though the front inner flap is present, which states "Murder by suggestion: - a death inspired by a mind reader, the spirit medium Daniel Buwalds - that is the problem which the hero and his brother set out to solve. It tangles them in a web of demonism and plunges them into swift-moving adventures.The scene is New York, yet a strange atmosphere of medieval sorcery colors these pages." First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.

First Edition. Original black cloth, stamped in yellow. Uncommon African-American's second mystery novel also listed in Bleiler for supernatural elements. A white couple attempt world domination. Very Good, some minor cloth loss at top spine end, mild cocking, contemporary gift inscription at front pastedown.