Satan Was A Man: A Novel of Murder

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 292pp. Small (ca 1/2" dia) faint stain at upper corner of front board, else a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original W.A. Dwiggins dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap) with shallow chips at head and heel of spine panel, light rubbing and soil, still on the better end of Very Good.

A somewhat curious crime novel for the period; in addition to contributing regularly to pulps such as Mystery: the Illustrated Detective Magazine, Bierstadt was a criminologist who wrote a number of pseudo-scholarly works on penology and prison reform.