Back to the Stone Age
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Science fiction author Chad Oliver's copy with his juvenile signature inside the front board. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a closed tear at the bottom of the front panel. Blue boards, lightly bumped, with orange ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, lightly foxed at the edges, clean internally. Burroughs's novel of Lieutenant von Horst's adventures among the people of Pellucidar, the fifth novel in the series.
Synopsis
Back to the Stone Age is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series set in the interior world of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a five-part serial in Argosy Weekly from January 9 to February 19, 1937 under the title "Seven Worlds to Conquer. " It was first published in book form in hardcover by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in September, 1937 under the present title, and has been reissued a number of times since by various publishers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8168
- Title
- Back to the Stone Age
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Tarzana
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, SF, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Tarzan, Mars, John Carter, Pellucidar, Hollow Earth
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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