The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman - 1921

New York: W. J. Watt & Company, 1921. First Edition. Very Good/GoodDJ. 12mo = 7-9". Gray cloth over hard covers with dark gray lettering. Endpages show foxing, darker on rear free endpaper. Page edges browned, four small stains on page edges that bleed slightly into margins of pages, brown stain in corner of pages 48-62, pages 48-54 have more extensive staining with brown spots, otherwise pages clean though slightly browned. Top/bottom spine edges slightly bumped, sligh browning along edges. Binding is good. Dj has 1/4" piece misg from top edge, small part of top of spine also missing. A few small tears at corners and top edges, darkened, numbers in pencil on spine. An unusual detective story. "The Gray Phantom was created by Herman Landon, the creator of Picaroon & Godfrey Usher; The Phantom appeared in Detective Story Magazine starting with "Seven Signs". The Phantom is Cuthbert Vanady, and he is a handsome devil, tall, lanky, with a 'lean, clean-chiseled' face and ash-grey eyes to match the gray at his temples and his gray business suits. The Phantom is more than just good-looking, of course. He's a criminal mastermind." Pulp and Adventure Heroes; G, Geocities.