THE MONSTER MEN

New York: Canaveral Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0940724065 . B&W Illustrations; First Canaveral Press Edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine - dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some light toning to the edges of the text block and text pages. The price clipped dust jacket is in very good condition. There are very small chips missing from the bottom corners of the dust jacket. This book and dust jacket appear to have been in the warehouse that was burned in the mid 1960's. There is some very slight residue of smoke to the dust jacket edges. "As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry moaning sobs." "By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler and began to write fiction. By this time, he and Emma had two children, Joan (1908–1972) , who later married the Tarzan film actor James Pierce, and Hulbert (1909–1991). During this period, he had copious spare time and began reading pulp fiction magazines. In 1929 he recalled thinking that ...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines." .