by Edgar Wallace

New York/Chicago: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, (1931).

Early reprint edition.

Originally published in the U.S. in 1929 by Doubleday Doran with the same jacket art as this A.L. Burt edition.

Wallace wrote a dozen African adventure books, with sacred magic, featuring Commissioner Sanders and his African native sidekick and travel aide, Bones, the first of which was adapted to a 1935 film starring Leslie Banks.

More than one-hundred-sixty films were adapted from Wallace's books, and he wrote numerous original screenplays including KING KONG.

Some minor white spotting to the upper cover corners, light small spot to the upper page edges, scuffed speckling to the fore-edges, else about very good in orange linen with black titles to the front cover, and with a black mask vignette illustration and orange reverse titles to black panels to the spine, slate-green upper page edges; in a very good dust jacket with minuscule nicks and rubs to the shelf-edges, tiny tears and nicks to the upper and lower spine edges, a short tear to the upper front spine fold, and tanning to the spine panel.