burroughs hulbert (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Cover age-toned/lightly rubbed/very lightly soiled, ~1.5x0.5 inch chip to front cover which has a ~1.75 inch tear stemming from it, which is reinforced with clear tape, ~0.75 inch chip from top corner of front cover, other minor chipping and tearing around edges, light creasing near corners and spine junctures, front cover has light pencil markings and fading stamps from previous retailers, spine sunned/lightly rubbed, and reinforced with clear tape, spine ends rubbed; edges lightly soiled/bumped; text-block age-toned and has very ooccasional and minor soiling; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. paperback. Good.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine. Cover art and "The Bottom of the World" illustrated by Rudolph Belarski. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers. Typical wear to yapped edges with a couple small chips and short tears (affecting a bit of text on cover), small faint stain on rear wrap, very good. Features: The first appearances of "The Bottom of the World" by John Coleman and Hulbert Burroughs, and "Prisoners in Flatland" by Frank Belknap Long, "Death from the Stars" by A. Rowley Hilliard, and the first appearance of "No Heroes Wanted" by Robert Moore Williams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. J. Allen St. John (illustrations) and Hulbert Burr (illustrator). [14], 414, [12] pages. Illustrations. Publisher's corrective label adhered to copyright page. The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve. Tape marks/reside from where dust jacket was tape to boards and adjacent endpapers. Canaveral Press was an Authorized publisher of cloth-bound editions of Burroughs works. The Mucker was Burroughs' own tour de force of adventure writing. It includes elements of the gangster novel, piracy, desert island adventures, a prize-fighting sequence, Western action, and more. all blended with incredible skill and vigor into on of the most breath-taking, swashbuckling, rip-roaring romps in all of literature. Author Richard A. Lupoff placed it at fourth place on a reading list of essential Burroughs novels in his 1965 book Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Lupoff calls the novel "a most remarkable technical achievement" and states that "In a single book it is virtually a catalog of the pulps." Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan (who appeared in a series of twenty-four books by him) and John Carter (who was a recurring character in a series of eleven books), he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy. Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every possible way, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, films, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. The Mucker is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally formed by two stories: "The Mucker", begun in August 1913 and published by All-Story Weekly in October and November 1914; and "The Return of the Mucker", begun in January 1916 and published by All-Story Weekly in June and July 1916. The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on 31 October 1921. From January 1922 to August 1939, Methuen (UK) published a version of The Return of the Mucker under the title The Man Without a Soul. In 1917, Burroughs wrote a third Mucker story entitled The Oakdale Affair featuring the Return of the Mucker sidekick, Bridge. Billy Byrne is a low class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind, and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. He has a deep hatred for wealthy society. He trains as a prizefighter but cannot stop drinking. When falsely accused of murder, he flees to San Francisco and is shanghaied aboard a ship. Enforced sobriety, brutal ship's discipline and productive work improves him. The ship's secret mission is soon enacted - the hijacking of a specific yacht to take a millionaire's daughter, Barbara Harding, for ransom. Billy Byrne brutally beats her suitor, Billy Mallory, leaving him for dead. "He knew that she looked down upon him as an inferior being. She was of the class that addressed those in his walk of life as 'my man.'" After Barbara confronts him and calls him a coward, a change begins in Billy Byrne. He saves the life of one kidnapper, Theriere, rather than letting him be washed overboard, though he cannot fathom his own reasons. After a terrible storm, the ship is damaged and only makes it to land with Billy's help at the wheel. He rescues Barbara from the wreck and brings her ashore. Barbara is kidnapped by headhunters descended from medieval Japanese. Byrne and Theriere race to rescue her from the daimyo's hut in the middle of the village, but Theriere is fatally wounded in the escape. Billy protects Barbara from the jungle for weeks while his own wounds heal. After realizing he's in love with her, he agrees to let her teach him how to speak properly. When he is again wounded while rescuing two of her father's ships officers from savages, she confesses her love for him also. Learning that Mallory is still alive, and being held by the headhunters along with her father, Billy sets off to free them. During their escape, Billy is severely injured. Certain he is mortally wounded, he sends Mr. Harding and Mallory to care for Barbara. However, the next day finds him clinging to life, and he slowly retraces his steps to where he left Barbara. Believing him dead, they have all left. Months later, he is picked up by a ship. Upon returning to the States, Billy gets a job as a fighter. As he reads about his victory in the papers, he spots a small notice that Barbara's engagement to Mallory has been broken. Coincidentally, Barbara sees the news about Billy's fight, and sends for him. As he enters her father's posh home, he realizes that he can never fit in there. He explains that the gulf between them cannot be bridged, and that she and Mallory must marry. Reprint edition, presumed first printing thus.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Ballantine Books Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 654pp. B/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light creasing to spine, wear to cover edges. (29/5).

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Edition. An extraordinary autograph copy of this definitive Tarzan overview, signed by a multitude of "Tarzans" from various film versions, including James H. Pierce ("the oldest Tarzan," dated 1975), Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, John Mahoney, Denny Miller, Gordon Scott, Casper Van Dien, and Ron Ely. Then a bevy of "Janes," including Karla Schramm, Louise Lorraine, Bo Derek, Eve Brent, Lydie Denier. And finally, by the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Danton Burroughs, dated June 24, 1989), Tarzan illustrator Thomas Yeates, and the author of this formidable tome, Irwin Porges (at the ERB Convention, dated June 1989). Also laid in is a glossy black-and-white illustrated leaf, inscribed to "Joe" by Burne Hogarth and dated June 1989. All of the other inscriptions also made to "Joe" (or "Joseph"). Very Good in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Binding slightly shaken, but still square, some brief spotting at the top page edges, light wear at the corners of the boards. Jacket with no loss, only light wear and a bit of creasing at a few extremities. (see images). Signed.