THE BLACK MASS
Book Details + Condition: Duffield & Green. First Edition, 1931. Hardcover (no jacket). 130 pages, with wonderful Art Deco illustrations by Rhea Wells. Author Peter N. Krassnoff’s novel about the cult of Satan in the Russia of Rasputin's era. Krassnoff was a former Russian General who wrote several books about Russia during the Revolution. An increasingly hard-to-find work. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; bumped upper right corner; wear to boards, with discoloration present; foxing to first and last few pages (with a few intermittent spots in the text); interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.