DUNN, J OSEPH ALLAN (3 résultats)

Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Adventure novel concerning the discovery of a lost remnant of ancient Atlantis in the interior of South America. First published in All Around Magazine in December 1916. Eichner, Atlantean Chronicles, p. 215. Reginald 04597. Top edge of text block lightly foxed, slight shelf slant, a nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping at lower spine end. (#106725).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Cover Artist not Specified (illustrateur). The sequel to "Jim Morse, South Sea Trader," from the author of "The Treasure of Atlantis," who would go on to write "Rimrock Trail" and "The Flower of Fate." Juvenile adventure. Slight wear to corners and top edges of boards. Text block slightly age toned but remains tight, firm and flexible -- hinges are solid and have not required any repair. Some mottling to green topstain near the spine. Spine cocked, but less than a quarter-inch. Book in unusually nice condition. Dedication page dated March, 1920, at Pittsfield, Mass. Dual 1920 copyright listed, to Small, Maynard & Company (Incorporated) and, oddly enough, to The Boy Scouts of America. No other dates listed. Small, Maynard listed as publishers on title page, on copyright page, and on DJ spine, but spine of book itself says "A.L. Burt Company." Possibly a Burt rebinding, then, of overset Small & Maynard pages. Original, intact dust jacket has not been taped nor restored in any way, though it's now in a Brodart protector. DJ missing a big chunk (3-1/4 inches wide by an inch-and-a-quarter deep) at bottom of front panel near spine, and smaller chips at top of spine. But the wraparound sepia charcoal DJ sketch of a wild-haired drummer rousing the cannibal forces in a South Seas village while using human femurs (or are those tibiae?) for drumsticks remains clear. Blank white endpapers. No internal illustrations. DJ flaps, though intact, are blank, and symmetrically clipped at all four corners. 266 pp. Reduced from $130.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Color frontipiece and jacket art by Ralph Pallen Coleman (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Very good book in a good-only original jacket which shows considerable rub (and a small hole) along fold between front panel and front flap -- probably a bug chew. Jacket spine also no longer a thing of beauty, though it (as well as jacket front flap) does still read "Net $1.50." From the author of "The Treasure of Atlantis," who would go on to write "Rimrock Trail" and "The Flower of Fate." English-born Dunn (1872-1941) came to the United States in 1893, spending about five years in Colorado, five years in Honolulu, and 10 years in San Francisco (where he was active in the Bohemian Club), then relocated to the East Coast in 1914, from which time his writing career -- primarily for the pulps -- blossomed. Jacket rear panel here advertises Dunn's "Turquoise Canon" (also Doubleday-Page, 1920.) An old timer leaves each of three disparate men a part of the secret to finding his hidden gold, requiring them to cooperate. En route, they encounter Apaches and -- needless to say -- a "dangerous Mexican." Lensed by Fox in 1926 (as "No Man's Gold," a silent film) with Tom Mix, Eva Novak, and Tony the horse. Apparently no relation to the 1948 Western "Dead Man's Gold," starring Lash LaRue and Al "Fuzzy" St. John. This hardcover now reduced from $60.