The Masked Rider
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co. Publishers
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
Copyright date: 1939
Description: May Wynne is a pseudonym for Mabel Winifred Knowles, prolific author of 211 books published between 1899 and 1954, as well as many short stories. Her works include thrillers, romances, adventures, historical and guide stories, didactic and religious pieces, and girls' school stories.

A Church worker at the Anglican mission parish of St Luke’s, Victoria Docks, Knowles used the proceeds from her writing career to fund mission activities. During the peak of her career, she wrote as many as eight books a year.





A few May Wynne Books - 1900 – 1940s
Enormously prolific author of nearly 200 books in all, including adult romance and mystery and children's adventure and holiday stories as well as numerous girls' school stories. In the early 1910s, she published six novels under her Lurgan pseudonym. Among her numerous titles are Ronald Lindsay (1905), The Red Fleur-de-Lys (1912), The Hero of Urbino (1914), Roseleen at School (1920), The Spendthrift Duke (1921), Peggy's First Term (1922), Jean Plays Her Part (1926), Plotted in Darkness (1927), Belle and Her Dragons (1931), The Unseen Witness (1932), Two Maids of Rosemarkie (1937), Sadie Comes to School (1941), The Terror of the Moor (1943), and The Unsuspected Witness (1945).

This particular copy of the 1939 edition comes complete with dust jacket. 8vo., 256p, map, illustrations. Black cloth with red titles and mask device, in illustrated tan dj. The dj is heavily chipped and rubbed, with soiling.
Notes: Other system no.# (OCoLC)1896930 / republished in 1939 by Albert Whitman Co. Publishers
May Wynne, (1 Jan 01. 1875 – 29 Nov 29, 1949) / (Mabel Winifred Knowles, aka May Wynne; aka Lester Lurgan)

**May Wynne, The Masked Rider. Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1939.** Cloth. 8vo - **over 7¾x9¾** tall, near fine/fair. 
**1931 & 1939 editions with dust jacket removed plus 1939 title page photo:**
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