A very scarce copy of one of the more lurid and entertainingly bad 1930's horror thrillers featuring one of the first female vampires in print. 

You want mad scientists, vampires, comically sinister Orientals and stock know-nothing cops, they're all here in what has been described as an "Indisputably weird! [an] Amateurishly written, but gripping mystery thriller!" 

Combines weird menace, detective and science-fictional pulp conventions to produce a story of vampirism in New York City, against a back story involving vampire bats from South America and a half-dozen intercalated 'cases' of vampirism from around the world. The evil German genius Schalkenbach has set up a secret barricaded laboratory in Greenwich Village, where, when he is not conducting experiments on the revived corpse of a beautiful young society woman, he is moodily reciting Wagner on an organ behind a black velvet curtain. 

Offered with dustjacket elsewhere at $1,750.00.

Gibbons, Cromwell. The Bat Woman. New York. Published by World Press. [DATE]. 223pp.

A good + copy, bound in cloth that's through at the extremities, but still generally  solid, and has generally bright pages. An excellent copy textually just begging for an interesting binding or facsimile dustjacket.