Jerome (Owen Fox, pseud. Oscar Jerome Friend) The Hand of Horror
£150
London, Skeffington, [1930s].
UK edition, ‘6th Thousand’. 8vo. Original green cloth. Presumed second issue dust-jacket, priced 2/6 with ‘1/6’ price-sticker to spine.
A thriller with elements of horror and hypnotism. Friend served as editor for numerous genre magazines, including Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Captain Future and Thrilling Wonder Stories. After the passing of his colleague Otis Adelbert Kline in 1946, Friend took over Kline’s literary agency, representing notable authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury.
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Minor foxing to extremities of text-block; cloth very good; jacket lightly rubbed at extremities, but overall very good.
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