Adventure Fiction
TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT ...
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8-10] 11-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue pebbled cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Teitler 208. Heins TaM-1.
TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1948]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8-10] 11-318 [319-320: blank], one inserted plate with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original tan cloth, front and spine stamped in blue, top edge stained blue. Later edition. Heins TaM-2.
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-408, nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, one map, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing. The eighth Tarzan book, a sequel to TARZAN THE UNTAMMED (1920). Seeking Jane, Tarzan enters the land of Pal-ul-don, inhabited by black and white races, both with tails, and prehistoric beasts. A total of 45,000 copies of the McClurg edition were printed. There were multiple printings, at least two, last dated 1922. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 323. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 126. Teitler 197. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02334. Heins TTe-1.
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-408 [409-410: ads], four inserted plates illustrated by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained yellow. Later edition. Eighth of the Tarzan series. Heins TTe-3. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints TTe-8. Jacket variant 8.
TARZAN THE UNTAMED ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-428, nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition, first printing. Tarzan fights with the British against the Germans in Africa during World War I. The lost city of Xuja, inhabited by a race of people so ingrown that they are all mad, is found in North Africa. There were multiple printings, at least two, totaling 77,000 copies, the last dated 1921. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 322. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 127. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02335. Heins TU-1.
TARZAN THE UNTAMED ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-428, nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition, first printing. Tarzan fights with the British against the Germans in Africa during World War I. The lost city of Xuja, inhabited by a race of people so ingrown that they are all mad, is found in North Africa. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 322. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 127. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02335. Heins TU-1.
TARZAN THE UNTAMED ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-428, nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition, first printing. Tarzan fights with the British against the Germans in Africa during World War I. The lost city of Xuja, inhabited by a race of people so ingrown that they are all mad, is found in North Africa. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 322. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 127. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02335. Heins TU-1.
TARZAN THE UNTAMED.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-428 [429--440: ads], four inserted plates illustrated by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Seventh of the Tarzan series. Heins TU-3. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints TU-8b. Jacket variant 7a.
TARZAN TRIUMPHANT.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1934-35]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-6 9-318 [319-322: ads] [note: pagination correct], four inserted plates illustrated by Studley Burroughs, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained green. Later edition. Book fifteen of the Tarzan series. Heins TTr-3. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints TTr-1a. Jacket variant 2b.
THE TARZAN TWINS ...
Joliet, Illinois, New York, Boston: Published by The P. F. Volland Company, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-126 [127-128: ads], numerous illustrations, mostly in color, by Douglas Grant, original pictorial boards with blue cloth shelf back, pictorial endpapers. First edition, first printing. Teitler 200. Heins TTw-1.
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-256 [257: ad] [258: blank] [259-263: ads] [264: blank] [265-267: ads] [268: blank], ten inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, ten inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Total of 17,000 copies printed. There were multiple printings, at least two, last dated 1921. Fourth book of the Mars series. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years #307. Heins TMM-1.
THE WAR CHIEF.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-283 [284: blank], original orange cloth, front panel stamped in brown and blind, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. 6000 copies printed. Heins WC-1.
THE WAR CHIEF.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-283 [284: blank], original orange cloth, front panel stamped in brown and blind, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. 6000 copies printed. Heins WC-1.
DAVID INNES OF PELLUCIDAR. PICTURIZED FROM THE NOVELS BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. 269 PICTURES BY JOHN COLEMAN BURROUGHS.
Kansas City, Missouri: House of Greystoke, [1965]. 269 illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Consists of J.C. Burroughs pen and ink drawings of ERB characters and prints the comic strip "David Innes of Pellucidar: Adventures At the Earth's Core." The first 12 pages were originally published in Hi-Spot comics #2 (1940). The full story was not published. The two six page strips at the end of this book was a re-working of the original strip and never published. All material in black and white.
THE SENTINELS.
Oxford, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. U.S. issue with $10.95 price to front flap. A sea adventure with the Royal Navy fighting slavers off the coast of West Africa.
THE AVENGING PICAROON.
London: Frederick Muller, 1955. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Second novel in the Picaroon series. Signed inscription by Cassells to the dedicatee Leo Margulies. Hubin, p. 146.
ENTER THE PICAROON.
London: Frederick Muller, 1954. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first novel in this series, introducing Ludovic Saxon, The Picaroon "gay and swashbuckling buccaneer of crime." Signed inscription by Cassells, an association copy: "To Leo-...Bill Duncan [John Cassells], October 14/54." The Leo is editor and publisher Leo Margulies, who was involved in anthologies, magazines and pulps from the '30s onward. Not in Hubin (1994).
NINE LIVES.
Philadelphia, London: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1937]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Fantastic adventure thriller with Indian frontier setting. Fourth and last Colin Gray novel. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 373. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 50. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 41. Reginald 02863.
THE POISONED MOUNTAIN.
Philadelphia, London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1936. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The third Colin Gray novel. Major Colin Gray and his wife are captured in the Himalayas and brought to a mysterious city.
HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-308 [309-312: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Signed by and dated by Chester on the title page. Fantastic adventure story set in an unknown Arctic region north of Siberia. The first "Kioga" novel, first published as a serial in BLUE BOOK in 1935-1936. Filmed as a Republic Films serial. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-11. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 157. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 42. Reginald 02927.
SHARPE'S HONOUR: RICHARD SHARPE AND THE VITORIA CAMPAIGN, FEBRUARY TO JUNE, 1813.
New York: Viking, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The sixth volume in the Richard Sharpe series.
THE VAMPIRE OF N'GOBI.
Philadelphia, London: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-341 [342-344: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black. First edition. A lost race novel in imitation of H. Rider Haggard's SHE. Kingdom of ancient Egyptian origin discovered in central Africa. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-95. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 62. Bleiler (1978), p. 54. Reginald 03682.
THE LAND OF THE GOLDEN SCARABS.
Chicago: The White House Publishers, [1928]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint edition. Lost race novel set in Brazil. (First published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1928).
A DESERT DRAMA: BEING THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-277 [278: blank] [279-288: ads], original light blue cloth, front stamped in dark blue, brown and green, spine stamped in dark blue, gold, brown and green. First U.S. edition. A party of tourists sailing on the Nile are abducted by Dervish warriors, during captivity they are asked to renounce Christianity. Imperialistic view of North Africa. Adapted into a stage play and filmed twice (1923 & 1932). Green and Gibson, A22c.
STYRBIORN THE STRONG.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 15-256 [257-260: blank] [Note: text complete despite gap in pagination], illustrated by Keith Henderson, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained blue. First edition. Adventure novel based on Norse saga with Styrbiorn son of the Swedish King Olaf.