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Tarzan and the Ant Men
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1924, [1925]. Reprint. Very good+ in bright red cloth covered boards with black text embossed on the spine and on the front board. A 12mo of 7 5/16 by 5 inches with soiling to the top and fore edges of the text block as well as to the upper edges of the boards and head of the spine. There is an early prior owner's name and book plate on the first free end page. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket (no price) with very shallow (1/16") chips from the ends of the spine area and similar sized chips from the fore edges of the panels over the tips of the boards. 346 pages of text followed by a two page ad from the publisher. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a painting by J. Allan St. John.
Synopsis
Tarzan and the Ant Men is the tenth book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' series of novels about the jungle hero Tarzan. It was first published as a seven-part serial in the magazine Argosy All-Story Weekly for February 2, 9, 16, and 23 and March 1, 8, and 15, 1924. It was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in September, 1924. The story was also adapted for Gold Key Comics in Tarzan #174-175 (1968). In the book Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Richard A.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32215
- Title
- Tarzan and the Ant Men
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1924, [1925]
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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