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TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good in very good jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Very good in very good jacket.. Inscribed early printing of the first photoplay edition, with the jacket design featuring a scene from the film starring Jim Pierce - who later became Burroughs's son-in-law. First published serially in ARGOSY in 1922 then in book form by McClurg in 1923, this edition was issued to coincide with the feature-length film. This copy is an early reprint of the photoplay edition, as the rear ads match Zeuschner's identification of the 1930 printing. In addition to the jacket, this version includes four full-page black-and-white plates of stills from the movie. 7.5'' x 5''. Original orange cloth stamped in black to spine and front board. In original color pictorial dust jacket with G&D printed catalogue on verso. Illustrated with four black-and-white plates. Publisher's ads at rear. [6], 333, [13] pages. Inscribed by Burroughs to front fly leaf: "." Jacket with rubbing to center spine and front fold, light edgewear with a couple short closed tears. Book rubbed along edges, some staining to rear panel.
Synopsis
Tarzan and the Golden Lion is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the ninth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was published in 1923.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49962
- Title
- TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- 20th century,Jazz Age,US American,Books to Film,Adventure Fiction
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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