THE FLOWER OF FATE

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt borders and publisher's logo to the upper board, titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a short ink inscription to the front endpaper and some spotting to the closed text block edge are, otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has small chips to the spine tips, several closed tears with associated creasing, and is otherwise bright and attractive. Scarce.

A science fiction novel of crime and adventure in which a lost race of Lemurians is discovered on an Island in the South Pacific. Joseph Allan Dunn (1875-1941), was a popular pulp fiction writer who authored over 1,000 short stories and 40 books between 1914-1941. (Bleiler; Hubin; SFE, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).