Rick Brant #6: The Phantom Shark by John Blaine - 0

Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. 206 pages, brown tweed cloth with black ltrs, red printers ink on top edges, mapped endpapers, corners and head-heel of spine is bumped.. Unknown Edition. Hardcover. G++/No DJ.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Reprint, MAD-49500-6-3, front jacket flap and prelim list through The Egyptian Cat Mystery, Hardy Boy titles listed through Mystery of the Desert Giant on rear panel, 16 Ken Holt titles on rear flap. 1 inch closed tear and minor tape remnant on front jacket edge, ink stamp on front jacket panel. 1949 Hard Cover. viii, 206 pp. Reddish pink tweed boards, black titles, map of Spindrift Island on endpapers. "Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three). The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1968, with the previously unpublished title, The Magic Talisman printed in 1990 in a limited edition as the concluding #24. In the series, teenaged Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott [Scotty] live on Spindrift Island off the coast… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket has edge wear with small chips; small closed tears; now in new removable protective cover. Red tweed boards with black printing on spine and front. Pictorial end papers - map of Spindrift Island. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, 1949 edition but probably 1956 printing, 206 pages. digest size (5"" x 7.5"") The Phantom Shark (Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story #6) by Harold L. Goodwin, writing as John Blaine. Cover art and Illustrated frontispiece, not signed. Front DJ flap and book lists Rick Brant titles to #11, The Wailing Octopus, published in 1956; DJ rear lists Hardy Boys titles to #35, The Clue in the Embers, published 1955; and the DJ rear flap lists Ken Holt titles to #11, The Mystery of the Grinning Tiger, published in 1956. Rick and Scotty cross paths with a nefarious pearl thief in the South Pacific.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition, MAD-49500-6-2, front jacket flap and prelim list through The Phantom Shark, 42 Zane Grey titles on rear panel, Hardy Boys titles listed through The Sign of the Crooked Arrow on rear flap. 1/2 inch closed tear on rear jacket corner, front jacket flap corner clipped. 1949 Hard Cover. viii, 206 pp. Red cloth boards, black titles, map of Spindrift Island on endpapers. "Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three). The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1968, with the previously unpublished title, The Magic Talisman printed in 1990 in a limited edition as the concluding #24. In the series, teenaged Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott [Scotty] live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where… Read More