MERRITT, A. — Dwellers in the Mirage

New York, NY: Avon Books, 1952. Reprint. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. Avon book number 413, with no price on the cover. This is a reprint, with new cover art of the 1944 Avon edition. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers hve some beginning bumping and rubbing. There is a light crease to the rear top corner of the book cover. The laminate has pulled a bit at the top front corner of the book cover. The text pages are clean, but there is generalized toning due to the acid content of the paper. "His fiction, eight complete novels and a number of short stories, [4] was only a sideline to his journalism career. One of the best-paid journalists of his era, Merritt made $25,000 per year by 1919, and at the end of his life was earning $100,000 yearly—exceptional sums for the period. His financial success allowed him to pursue world travel—he invested in real estate in Jamaica and Ecuador—and exotic hobbies, like cultivating orchids and plants linked to witchcraft and magic (monkshood, wolfbane, blue datura, peyote, and cannabis). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .