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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 52 pages; 20 cm. [vi], 52 pp. Followed by a leaf of publisher's advertisements. With grayscale reproductions of Ralph Crosby Smith's illustrations from the original serial. First book publication of Hal Goodwin's Hawaiian adventure serial, first printed in the Parents' Magazine comic "Calling All Boys" in four parts, Nos. 7 to 10, September 1946 to March 1947, so that its magazine appearance preceded both "The Feathered Cape" and the first Rick Brant books. With a preface and dedication by Rick Brant collector Jim Ogden, dated 2010, and published by Jim Towey's The Adventure Continues of West Granby, Connecticut, a reprint venture for series-book collectors whose advertisements appear at the end and describe print runs as small as 25 copies. The preface links the story to "The Feathered Cape", whose hero Jonathan Blaine, shortened to John Blaine, supplied Goodwin's pseudonym for the Rick Brant series. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black, apparently issued without a dust jacket. Tight and fresh. About Fine. …