BERGER, Helen. Mystery of World's End. Illustrated by Carlos Sanchez M.. London, New York, Toronto: Longmans. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant green cloth lettered and decorated in black to the front board and spine, in the appealing dust jacket by Sanchez, who illustrates the endpapers and the volume with frontispiece and one chapter head-piece. A supreme copy. The cloth very clean, sharp and striking, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout with faint crease to corners of frontispiece and title page. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00) and fine, with two small closed tears to rear panel lower, made all the more discreet with that fantastic wraparound design.
One of perhaps two or three novels by the obscure author, all vaguely juvenile and often mysteries as here, the action taking place in Hawaii where a young boy is sent to his uncle’s estate to recover from a car accident, and whose curiosity leads him into a Cuban conspiracy. The jacket represents one of only a small handful of such commissions by the illustrator, Carlos Sanchez M. His most famous work is perhaps the 1930 edition of Poe’s The Gold Bug. Uncommon.
BERGER, Helen. Mystery of World's End. Illustrated by Carlos Sanchez M.. London, New York, Toronto: Longmans. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant green cloth lettered and decorated in black to the front board and spine, in the appealing dust jacket by Sanchez, who illustrates the endpapers and the volume with frontispiece and one chapter head-piece. A supreme copy. The cloth very clean, sharp and striking, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout with faint crease to corners of frontispiece and title page. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00) and fine, with two small closed tears to rear panel lower, made all the more discreet with that fantastic wraparound design.
One of perhaps two or three novels by the obscure author, all vaguely juvenile and often mysteries as here, the action taking place in Hawaii where a young boy is sent to his uncle’s estate to recover from a car accident, and whose curiosity leads him into a Cuban conspiracy. The jacket represents one of only a small handful of such commissions by the illustrator, Carlos Sanchez M. His most famous work is perhaps the 1930 edition of Poe’s The Gold Bug. Uncommon.
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