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TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS]. TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, circa 1929 (1928). Reprint. Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, in original publisher's red cloth with black titles, one interior plate loose, corner bumping, else pages are clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. Neat previous owners bookplate on first pastedown from private library collection, a few scuffs on ffep offset from the glue on bookplate. Lacking only the scarce dust jacket. One of the earliest reprints of the Tarzan Lord of the Jungle from G&D publishers, uncommon in this about fine to very good plus condition. First appearance in the 1927 issue pulp magazine Blue Book Magazine. Frontispiece and three interior plates illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Classic ERB fantasy adventure novel, collectible. 377 pgs. 8vo.
Synopsis
Stimbol drew his hunting knife from his scabbard. He would slip its point through the wild man’s heart...The ape man moved – consciousness was returning. Stimbol realised that he must act quickly and at the same instant a great hairy man reached out through the foliage and a might hand closed over his shoulders. With a screaming curse he turned to look into the hideous face of Bolgani. He tried to strike at the shaggy breast of his antagonist with his hunting knife, but the puny weapon was torn from his grasp and hurled into the bushes. The great yellow fangs were bared against his throat as Tarzan opened his eyes...
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- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-1012
- Title
- TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE
- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Illustrator
- J. Allen St. John
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- 377
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. Allen St. John
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pulp Fiction; Fantasy; Cinema / Theatre Arts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
Glossary
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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