Black Mask: August 1947 Various Magazines

Soft Cover. Atlas Publishing 1947. 1st Edition. Book condition: F - Fine. Black & White illustrations. This is a very rare British Edition of Black Mask pulp magazine in fine condition, published in August of 1947. Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan. It is most well-known today for launching the hardboiled crime subgenre of mystery fiction, publishing now-classic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, and others. 64 pages. Size: 7" x 10" (170mm x 250mm). (1.2)