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Gould, Chester : Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler

Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, WI, 1945

"Authorized Edition." Original publisher's brown cloth binding with orange lettering on front cover and book spine. Original multicolored paper dust jacket included. Yellow, white, orange, and black lettering on dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. All edges stained black. 5 1/2" x 8." 247 pages, complete. Thirty-three black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in the front. Two additional pages in back advertising other books in the "Whitman Authorized Edition" series. Pages are very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning throughout and a faint wrinkle near the fore-edge affecting about half of the pages in the book. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule bumping to the corners. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact overall but has light age toning, a couple spots of tape or glue residue on front flap, and a few small wrinkles and slight wear to extremities. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. This is "[a]n original story based on the Famous Newspaper Strip, 'Dick Tracy.'" This book is a novel that was authored by Chester Gould (1900-1985), an American cartoonist and the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip which he wrote and drew from 1931-1977. In this story, Dick Tracy's idyllic vacation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado is up-ended when he learns of the disappearance of a mining executive and crosses paths with a fiendish villain.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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