Adventure Fiction
THE BAMBOO BLOODBATH.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion N2716. Paperback original. Book 3 in the Jason Striker, Master of Martial Arts series.
THE KING'S PASSPORT.
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi 1 [2] 3-336, original light orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top page edges stained orange, illustrated end papers. First edition. Signed inscription by Jones dated in the year of publication. Historical adventure novel featuring D'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac and involving Cardinal Richelieu.
THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-289 [290: blank] [291-298: ads], printed wrappers. First U.S. edition. Part of the Appletons' Town and Country Library series. Adventure fiction set in the Far East. The beautiful White Devil is a female pirate.
THE WHITE WOLF.
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1 [2] 3-334 [335-336], original purple cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. Adventure novel of a dog that grows up with wolves.
ADVENTURERS ALL...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Includes three novels, HUNTINGTONTOWER, JOHN McNAB and THE THREE HOSTAGES. The last of the three is a Richard Hannay novel.
MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xlviii [xlix-xlx] 1-276 [277] [278: blank], jacket painting by Rockwell Kent, original light green flecked cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green and red, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. Published in the U. K. as SICK HEART RIVER (1941). The last adventure of Sir Edward Leithen, who leaves London and comes to America to search for a missing banker. The trail leads to Canada and the Artic Circle. Long introduction by Howard Swiggett of which Kirkus Review writes - "...a tribute to Buchan's contribution to literature, an analysis of the stories and their sources, and enough outline of character and plots to give the reader, newcomes to Buchan's work, not only thorough comprehension of Mountain Meadow, but the urge to go back to the earlier books." Hubin, p. 114.
TARZAN: THE LOST ADVENTURE ...
[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale. A presentation copy with signed inscriptions to ERB collector William Ross by Lansdale and author of the preface George T. McWhorter, and signed by four of the artists whose illustrations appear in the book and several others associated with its publication.
TARZAN: THE LOST ADVENTURE ...
[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Number 799 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Danton Burroughs. Also a facsimile signature of Edgar Rice Burroughs. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale.
AT THE EARTH'S CORE ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-277 [278: blank] [279-282: ads], nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original gray-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Prehistoric men and beasts are discovered in the earth's hollow interior. The first of the six novels comprising the Pellucidar series, first published as a four-part serial in ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 4 April through 25 April, 1914. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-25; (1981) 1-29; (1987) 1-15; (1995) 1-15; and (2004) II-191. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 311. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 104. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 93-6. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02269. Heins AEC-1.
AT THE EARTH'S CORE.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-277 [278: blank] [279-282: ads], nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original gray-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Prehistoric men and beasts are discovered in the earth's hollow interior. The first of the six novels comprising the Pellucidar series, first published as a four-part serial in ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 4 April through 25 April, 1914. Filmed in 1976 with Doug McClure in the title role. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-25; (1981) 1-29; (1987) 1-15; (1995) 1-15; and (2004) II-191. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 311. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 104. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 93-6. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02269. Heins AEC-1.
AT THE EARTH'S CORE.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-277 [278: blank] [279-282: ads], nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original gray-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Prehistoric men and beasts are discovered in the earth's hollow interior. The first of the six novels comprising the Pellucidar series, first published as a four-part serial in ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 4 April through 25 April, 1914. Filmed in 1976 with Doug McClure in the title role. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-25; (1981) 1-29; (1987) 1-15; (1995) 1-15; and (2004) II-191. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 311. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 104. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 93-6. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02269. Heins AEC-1.
BACK TO THE STONE AGE.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The fifth Pellucidar novel. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02271. Heins BSA-1. Zeuschner 25.
BACK TO THE STONE AGE.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The fifth Pellucidar novel. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02271. Heins BSA-1. Zeuschner 25.
BACK TO THE STONE AGE.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The fifth Pellucidar novel. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02271. Heins BSA-1. Zeuschner 25.
BACK TO THE STONE AGE.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The fifth Pellucidar novel. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02271. Heins BSA-1. Zeuschner 25.
BACK TO THE STONE AGE.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The fifth Pellucidar novel. The adventure of Wilhelm von Horst, a member of the Jason Gridley/Tarzan expedition to Pellucidar. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02271. Heins BSA-1. Zeuschner 25.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-316, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Modest Stein, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 5000 copies printed. Heins BHB-1.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1926]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint. Heins BHB-2.
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-336 [337] [338-340] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 19,500 copies printed. The third Tarzan novel. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 317. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 105. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02272. Heins BTa-1.
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
London: Metheun & Co. Ltd, 1918. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Third in the Tarzan series.
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1930]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-336 [337] [338-344: ads], inserted plate illustrated by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Third of the Tarzan series. Heins BTa-4. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints BTa-5. Jacket variant 1d.
BEYOND THIRTY AND THE MAN-EATER.
South Ozone Park, New York: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Publications, 1957. Octavo, illustration by Gil Kane, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 3,000 copies (stated on the copyright page). Collects two stories together which had previously been published separately in wrappers in 1955.
BEYOND THIRTY [and] THE MAN-EATER.
N.p., n.d. [1955?]. Large octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-2] [1] 2-57 [58: blank]; [1-2] [1] 2-50, offset from typewritten copy, plain wrappers. Second edition of BEYOND THIRTY and first edition of THE MAN-EATER. Limited to 300 copies. Both volumes published without authorization and anonymously circa 1955 by Lloyd A. Eshbach. "Beyond Thirty" was first published in ALL AROUND MAGAZINE, February 1916 and "The Man-Eater" was first published as a serial in a New York city newspaper, THE EVENING WORLD, November 15-20, 1915. This "book" version of "Beyond Thirty" was preceded by an earlier anonymously produced 102-page hectographed booklet dated February 1953. Heins, p. 187.
BEYOND THIRTY [and] THE MAN-EATER.
N.p., n.d. [1955?]. Large octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-2] [1] 2-57 [58: blank]; [1-2] [1] 2-50, offset from typewritten copy, plain wrappers. Second edition of BEYOND THIRTY and first edition of THE MAN-EATER. Limited to 300 copies. Both volumes published without authorization and anonymously circa 1955 by Lloyd A. Eshbach. "Beyond Thirty" was first published in ALL AROUND MAGAZINE, February 1916 and "The Man-Eater" was first published as a serial in a New York city newspaper, THE EVENING WORLD, November 15-20, 1915. This "book" version of "Beyond Thirty" was preceded by an earlier anonymously produced 102-page hectographed booklet dated February 1953. Heins, p. 187.
THE CAVE GIRL.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Roy Krenkel, pictorial wrappers. First Ace edition. Ace F-258.