The Nine Unknown

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. 353pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards with yellow ink stamping. There are a number of faint small stains on the boards, and the title on the spine is a bit rubbed. There is a contemporary owner's name at the head of the front free endpaper, and there is a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist. "333" "Over a period of many centuries, an endless quantity of gold and silver has been disappearing into India. The employers of Jimgrim, Ramsden, Jeremy Ross, and Athelstan King provide incentive for this quartet to investigate. Through contact with ancient books of magic and sorcery- or scientific knowledge unknown to man- they learn of a league of nine. The league, known as the Nine Unknown, has existed from before the time of Atlantis, and has assembled and guarded secrets beyond the concepts of man. In trying to unearth the nine, the Jimgrim quartet matches strength with an imposter Nine Unknown- masters of evil who desire the gold of ages. The quartet learns that the wealth has been processed and combined effectively with the waters of the Ganges to provide an elixir of life." - "333