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The Mucker. Grosset Same-Year Reprint. J. Allen St. John Illustrations
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. Same Year Reprint . Cloth. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fair; see scans and description. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1921. Reprint, same year as first edition. J. Allen St. John illustrations. 12mo, 414 pp. + 2 pp ads. Red cloth, fair to about good condition, front joint nearly gone), general light soiling and wear. Tape repair, previous owner's inscription. Textblock near fine. Well-worn copy of a very hard-to-find Burroughs title, the same-year-as-first-edition Grosset reprint. Complete and still well together despite the one failing joint, and bearing four black and white J.Allen St.John illustrations, those undamaged. Good example of a Grosset same-year reprint.The tale of Billy Byrne's adventures in the South Pacific islands of (presumably) Melanesia - after having been shanghaied and shipwrecked - The Mucker, a title which never existed in anything like the numbers of the Tarzan and Martian titles by Burroughs, is nonetheless a similar pulse-pounding adventure tale, with headhunters, beautiful women, and "fierce warriors from a long-dead age". L21
Synopsis
From the book:BILLY BYRNE was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce a bartender whom Billy knew not by his first name. And, in proportion to their number which was considerably less, he knew the patrolmen and plain clothes men equally as well, but not so pleasantly. His kindergarten education had commenced in an alley back of a feed-store. Here a gang of older boys and men were wont to congregate at such times as they had naught else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or two, they had considerable time to devote to congregating.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000341
- Title
- The Mucker. Grosset Same-Year Reprint. J. Allen St. John Illustrations
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Same Year Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Pages
- 416
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
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- Reprint
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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