Bomba the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract by Roy Rockwood - 1926

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1926. first. hardcover. good-. W. S. Rogers. First edition. Beige cloth covered boards with black printing on front and spine, and illustration on front. Boards have some shelf wear and light soiling. Front end paper is missing. Prior owner's name is on verso of frontispiece. Pages are clean and unmarked, off white. Frontispiece illustration on glossy paper. Cupples and Leon hard cover, missing dust jacket, 1926 first edition, 204 pages, illustration by W. S. Rogers. 8vo (5"" x 7.5") Bomba the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract; or, Chief Nascanora and His Captives, #3 in the Bomba series, by Roy Rockwood, was published in 1926 by Cupples & Leon. Various sources say the author was Howard R. Garis, or John William Duffield. (Roy Rockwood is a pen name.) Advertisements in back of book list Bomba books to this title, and many other series books. Bomba lived far back in the jungles of the Amazon with a half-demented naturalist who told the lad nothing of his past. The jungle boy was a lover of birds, and hunted animals with a bow and arrow and his trusty machete. He had a primitive education in some things, and his daring adventures will be followed with breathless interest by thousands. Bomba treks through the Amazon jungle to the Island of Snakes to find an old witch who may know the secret of his origins. From Moving Mountain Bomba travels to the Giant Cataract, still searching out his parentage. Among the Pilati Indians he finds some white captives. He finds, too, an aged woman who had at one time been a great operatic singer, and she is the first to give Bomba real news of his forebears.