Item #4609 THE SEVEN CONUNDRUMS. With Illustrations by Morgan Wallace. E. Phillips OPPENHEIM.

THE SEVEN CONUNDRUMS. With Illustrations by Morgan Wallace.

New York: Little, Brown, and Company. 1923. Second printing. Hardcover. Second impression of the first edition, issued the same month as the first. Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in red. Frontispiece and three additional plates inserted in the text. Old erasure to front flyleaf, otherwise about a fine copy in a decent and attractive dust wrapper which has some small stains and minor chips to the edges. Very Good in Dust Jacket. Item #4609

¶ A collection of seven short stories based on a unified theme: a mysterious man employs three financially desperate entertainers to carry out his instructions for a year. They accept his proposal, not knowing if they are working on the side of good or evil. The three believe they may have “sold their souls to the devil.”.

Price (USD): $45.00