THE BLIND LION OF THE CONGO: The Boys' Big Game Series, #4. by Whitney, Elliott [pseudonym of Harry Lincoln Sayler, 1863-1913] - (1912)

Chicago:: Reilly & Britton, , (1912). Hardcover first edition -. Good in tan cloth with black lettering and illustration on the front cover in black with touches of blue and orange. The frontispiece and one of the internal plates are detached but still present. . First edition. A boy's adventure novel set in the African jungle by this prolific journalist and writer. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 3 internal plates on glossy paper by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Although this is usually described as number 4 in the series, the list in the front shows 4 titles with this as number 3 (all issued in 1912). Note - Reilly and Britton is the original publisher, copies showing Reilly & Lee are all later. 266 pp. plus 4 pp publisher's ads.