Donovan's Brain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #49625
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [10],234pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, old ringstains to upper panel with additional faint dampstaining not bleeding into cloth; overall a Very Good copy in Good to Very Good jacket.
The author's groundbreaking sci-fi novel first serialized in Black Mask, about a scientist who keeps alive the brain of a dead millionaire, only for the brain to take an evil telepathic hold over him. The work was thrice adapted for the screen, most famously the 1953 film directed by Felix Feist and starring Lew Ayres.
Bleiler (1978), p. 180.
Price: $75.00