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Tarzan's Quest.
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Tarzana, California; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1936., 1936. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. 318, [2] catalogue. 5 illustrations by J. Allen St. John, including frontispiece. Publishers' royal blue finely pebbled cloth with red titles to spine and upper board' top edge stained red, others uncut; in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also by St John. Very slight central crease to spine; spine tips and corners a little rubbed, and lower board bruised central top edge with associated unobtrusive stain. Small mark to front endpapers (where bookseller's ticket has been removed?) otherwise contents clean and crisp, with a little annotation in pencil to catalogue. 2 cm closed tear to jacket at lower front joint and a few minor nicks & creases, with very slight loss to edge at folds. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. The nineteenth story in the popular Tarzan series, originally published in six parts as "Tarzan and the Immortal Men" in the Blue Book Magazine from 1935-6, in which Tarzan's wife Jane makes her final appearance, when the hero rescues her from a tribe who have discovered the secret of eternal youth. Heins, Henry Hardy: A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10255
- Title
- Tarzan's Quest.
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Tarzana, California; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1936.
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Fiction
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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