Nick Carter Library No. 157. The Photograph Clew; or, Nick Carter's Underground Trail. August 4, 1894

(Pulp Fiction - Detective Magazines) NICK CARTER LIBRARY NO. 157. THE PHOTOGRAPH CLEW; OR, NICK CARTER'S UNDERGROUND TRAIL. AUGUST 4, 1894; by the Author of "Nick Carter." New York: Street & Smith, Publishers, August 4, 1894. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 11-7/8" x 8-9/16". Staple bound pictorial cheap wood pulp paper self wrappers printed in black with a masthead featuring seven different portraits of "Nick Carter in Various Disguises" and a large drawing of a horrifying scene of a house totally engulfed in flames, with a terrified lady in a second story barred window, frantically crying for help to anyone that can hear her, with what is presumed to be a deceased man, lying in the bushes nearby to front wrapper and publisher's advertisements to back wrapper with minor fraying to the edges, minor splitting to the fold at tail of spine, age-tanned paper and a small area with the remnants of paper that once were stuck, to back wrapper for what is still a nice copy of what is a rare survival o