Jan of the Jungle.
by KLINE, OTIS ADELBERT:
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++./No dw/dj,p/back as issued.
- Seller
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About This Item
US,slim 12mo p/back.1st edn.[Originally,'The Call of the Savage' (1931),serialised in 'ARGOSY',in 6 parts from 18/04/31 - 23/05/31 under magazine's variant title 'Jan of the Jungle'.First US HB published by Edward J. Clode, Inc., NY (1937) as 'Call of the Savage'.First US appearance as complete and unabridged p/back,1st edn.] VG++.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover (40c),but previous bookseller's ink UK decimal price to front,top right-hand corner.Bright,crisp,generally clean with very minimal,sporadic grubbing to white background covers, colour pictorial artwork by Stephen Holland,illustrated front cover with red/blue and green lettering,similar lettering to spine which has a couple of production wrinkles but NO reading creases,with negligible shelf-wear, bumping creasing to edges and corners - lower front corner with diagonal corner crease,both rear corners with minimal corner creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present. All edges aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.US,slim 12mo p/back.1st edn,5-172pp [paginated] includes XXI(31) chapters,first chapter with b/w line illustrated chapter headpiece; plus [unpaginated] story blurb,b/w line illustrated title page and to the rear,4pp publisher's adverts.
Far from the world of his white parents,the sixteen-year-old youth,Jan,was raised in a cage under the watchful eye of half- crazed Dr. Bracken.Guided by his foster mother, Chicma the Chimpanzee,Jan was destined to execute the doctor's fanatical plot for revenge against Jan's real mother.A monster with the mind of an ape and the body of a man,that was his part in Bracken's twisted scheme.But just on the eve of the intended onslaught,Jan and Chicma escaped to the jungle and emerged near the Lost Empire of Mu.There,Jan must do battle with the gigantic puma,the grotesque thunder bird,and the god-monster Sebek. With all his fighting skill,there remained only one challenge to Jan: trace his origins and locate his man-parents.
Author described by the founders of the Burrough's Bibliophiles as "the only author to be compared with Edgar Rice Burroughs, but whose work is as original as Burroghs' own," A contemporay of the author of Tarzan,Kline writes his own series of novels of interplanetary adventures,all of which have become classics of science fiction.
His novels of 'The Swordsman od Mars' and 'The Planet of Peril' have won him a following and a reputation for SF adventure comparable to E.R. Burroughs.And like the immortal creator of Tarzan,Kline too,had written of a jungle hero battling against savage beasts and lost kingdoms in unexplored lands.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja921621
- Title
- Jan of the Jungle.
- Author
- KLINE, OTIS ADELBERT:
- Illustrator
- colour pictorial artwork cover by Stephen Holland.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++.
- Jacket Condition
- No dw/dj,p/back as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- US,slim 12mo p/back.1st edn.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- US.NEW YORK,NY.ACE BOOKS,INC.,copyright 1931,[n.d. but c1966.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- q52.SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY.No ISBN.US/UK_Sci-fi novels_collection_anthology_vintage p/backs_p/b Original_1st edn.Books_sci-fi_Otis Adelbert Kline.Call of the Savage_vt Jan of the Jungle_Argosy magazine_serialisation.E. R. Burroughs.Books
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