WALLACE, EDGAR — The Hand of Power

New York, NY: The Mysery League, Inc, 1930. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. There is a light slant to the spine of the book, and some lightish bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright, with the exception of pages 46-47 where there is some light finger marking. The bottom edge of the text block has a faint red marker mark -- not a remainder mark, but from a previous owner / bookstore. The art deco style dust jacket has several small edge tears and a long crack / tear to the rear spine joint. The dust jacket has some generalized, noticeable toning / darkening to all the white portions, especially the rear cover. This is the first Mystery League title published. "Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories, and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work. He is remembered for the creation of King Kong, as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and for the The Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions, and The Economist describes him as "one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century", although few of his books are still in print in the UK." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Good dust jacket .