Bomba the Jungle Boy Among the Slaves by Rockwood, Roy by Rockwood, Roy

Grosset & Dunlap, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE/NONE. 210 unmarked, tight pages with small stains and smudges and a few creased upper corners; penciled name/address/scout troop/date/drawing on front flyleaf; water splotches on top edge of textblock; brown stains on foreedge and pencil marks on lower edge; some pencil drawing on front endpapers; rear free endpaper appears to be missing; cover has shelf and corner wear and 4 small dings on front; spine is fraying at top and bottom and a couple chips are missing from lower spine

New York: Clover Books, 1955. Hardcover. acceptable. Pictorial covers, no dust jacket as issued. Corners are bumped, with cardboard showing through; pages are tanning. Prior owner's name on first page. Clover books, published by McLoughlin Bros., undated except for copyright date but probably late 1950s, 210 pages. 12mo (5"" x 7.5"") #8 in the Bomba series, originally published in 1929 by Cupples & Leon. Dated to the later 1950s because McLoughlin Bros. became a subsidiary of Grosset and Dunlap in 1954, and this book uses the Grosset and Dunlap cover art from their 1950s reissue.

Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press. VG, NO dj. 1967. reprint. hardcover. 8vo . 251, 255pp . Lettering on front is very nice, but lettering on spine is non-existent. Facsimile reprint, 2 volumes in 1. Originally 1850 .

NY: McLoughlin Bros., 1940. no date given (circa 1940?) ; glossy pictorial c; lite wear at tips,/spine; 210 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frontis. 12 vo.

Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1953 printing of a 1929 publication, Very Good Hardcover / Poor Dustjacket, 210 pages, 5.25" x 7.5", edgewear and closed tears on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0.8661 in x 7.5984 in x 5.2362 in. Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover, no DJ. Cover has shelf and edge wear, rubbing and fading. Tearing and damage to spine. PO writing to flyleaf. Kept in plastic sleeve for protection. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1953. hardcover. Fair. Vintage book, missing dust jacket. Green tweed boards with black print on cover and spine. Spine has wear at the top. Beautiful pictorial endpapers showing jungle scene - Bomba and friend defending themselves from attack by alligator and jaguar. Prior owner's name on blank page. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1953 reprint of 1929 Cupples & Leon original; 210 pages. 12mo (5"" x 7.5""). 8th entry in Bomba series.

Cupples Leon, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. tight binding, clean pages, slig/illustrated tan cloth boards.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Hastings, H.L. Copyright page lists through Among the Slaves, terminal ad through Among the Pygmies. Lacks jacket. Small bookseller sticker on rear endpaper, corners slightly exposed. 1929 Hard Cover. 210, [2] pp. Black-and-white frontispiece by H.L. Hastings. "Bomba, the Jungle Boy was a series of American boy's adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood and published by Cupples and Leon in the first half of the 20th century in imitation of the successful Tarzan series. There were 20 books in the series. The first 10 were set in South America, where Bomba, who grew up in the jungle, tries to discover his origin. The second set of 10 books shift the scene to Africa, where a slightly older Bomba has jungle adventures. A common theme of the Bomba books is that Bomba, because he is white, has a soul that is awake, while his friends, the dark-skinned natives, have… Read More

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1929. Hardcover. Very good condition. 210p., frontis. Last title listed in ads