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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1926]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint. Heins BHB-2.
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.
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-375 [376: blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 12,500 copies printed. Fifth book of the Mars series. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 308. Heins CM-1.