THE WOLVES OF CHAOS. Love's Adventures in A Mad Land. de MacGrath, Harold - 1929

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. A VERY GOOD HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Bound in red boards with black decor, and black spine with red lettering. Title page and colophon page are on red paper. This volume shows only some light foxing to pages, and has a neat former owner's gift inscription across front endpaper, dated "April First - Twenty-Nine" The interior of the book is entirely clean of any marks or notations, The rare dust jacket features a striking red and black cover illustration, a list of Doubleday, Doran Novels to rear, and is complete with original price on front flap. Jacket is overall in Very good condition, showing some minor edgewear, and several chips at top of spine, and is now protected by a mylar wrapper A 341 page "Red Menace" novel. Harold MacGrath (1871-1932) was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. (Boris Karloff chose his stage name from the MacGrath novel The Drums of Jeopardy). Many of his novels were made into films, including The Wolves of Chaos in 1929. It tells the story of Cutty Clay's escape from the Petrovski Barracks in early Soviet Moscow ("that grim stronghold of Red Russia - the Madhouse in the center of Madmen") to Paris, where he finds himself entangled with a drug maddened group of radicals, A U.S. secret agent turned traitor, and a fascinating Russian Princess incognito. THE WOLVES OF CHAOS. Love's Adventures in A Mad Land. In which "Cutty" beloved by thousands of readers of "The Drums of Jeopardy" again appears. Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. in 1929, First Edition. .