Adventure Fiction
BLACK'ERCHIEF DICK...with an introduction by William McFee.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xvi [xvii-xviii] 1-302 [303-304: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. The author's first novel. An adventure novel of piracy and smuggling written when the author was just eighteen.
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.
NINJA'S REVENGE.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion N2821. Paperback original. Book 4 in the Jason Striker, Master of Martial Arts series.
DRUMS OF DAMBALA.
Chicago: Covici-Friede Publishers, [1932]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
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 TEMPLE OF THE TEN.
[West Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Weird adventure story first published in the pulp magazine Adventure.
THE BOWL OF BAAL.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lost race novel.
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.
THE DANCING FLOOR.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Adventure based on Greek folklore and predestination." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, #293.
THE MAN FROM THE NORLANDS.
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-292, jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, original taupe cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. First published in England as THE ISLAND OF SHEEP. 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.
APACHE DEVIL.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 9-310 [311-314: ads], four inserted plates with illustrations by Studley Burroughs, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, illustrated title page. Later edition. Heins AD-2. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints AD-1. Jacket variant 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.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1926]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint. Heins BHB-2.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1926-30]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-316, one inserted plate with illustration by Modest Stein, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Heins BHB-2. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints BHB-2. Jacket variant 2c.
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.
THE CAVE GIRL.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Roy Krenkel, pictorial wrappers. First Ace edition. Ace F-258.
THE CAVE GIRL.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1- 323 [324-328: ads], one inserted plate with illustration by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Heins CaG-3. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints CaG-3a. Jacket variant 2a.
THE CAVE GIRL...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-323 [324: blank], frontispiece by J. Allen St. John, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. First binding with "A. C. McCLURG / & CO" at base of spine panel. 5000 copies printed. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-59. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 333. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 106. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02277. Heins CaG-1.