[BURGESS, GELETT.] The Master of Mysteries. Illustrated by Karl Anderson and George Brehm....

[BURGESS, GELETT.] The Master of Mysteries. Illustrated by Karl Anderson and George Brehm. 8vo, publisher's red blind- and yellow-stamped cloth, minor rubbing to lower extremities, spine imprint letters rubbed; original [?] glassine dust jacket, tanned; discreet bookseller's label to front pastedown. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1912]

first edition. "Acknowledgment of authorship was made in the book itself by means of a cipher: the first letters of the first words of the twenty-four stories read THE AUTHOR IS GELETT BURGESS; the last letters of the last words of the twenty-four stories read: false to life and false to art" (Queens Quorum 50).