lions way story men de stoneham (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. One illustration plate is detached but present. Front cover has slight staining, mostly to the outer margin. ; Photoplay edition with illustrations from the Paramount Picture.

Hardcover. Etat : very good. no jacket. NOT an ex library book. Book with orange cloth binding, print in black. Name blacked out top of title page. Black showing top of copyright page. First published in America in 1932 printed on copyright page. 325 pages. Few foxing spots on side edge.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-x] xi [xii] xiii [xiv] 15-287 [288: blank] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and front free endpaper; true endpapers at rear] + 8-page publisher's "Early Summer List for 1931" inserted at rear, original orange cloth, front ruled in blind, front and spine panels stamped in black. First of two adventure novels about Kaspa, a feral man raised by African lions. Basis for a 1933 film "King of the Jungle" starring Buster Crabbe. Certainly an imitation of Tarzan. [Reference: Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 732. Bleiler (1978), p. 188. Reginald 13748]. Offsetting to front free end paper along with neat inked name, foxing to page edges, still a clean just about fine copy. No dust jacket. This edition is uncommon. (31588).

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-325 [326: blank], original decorated yellow cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First U.S. edition. First of two adventure novels about Kaspa, a feral man raised by African lions. Basis for a 1933 film "King of the Jungle" starring Buster Crabbe. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 732. Bleiler (1978), p. 188. Reginald 13748. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket lacking 5 mm strip at head of spine panel. An attractive copy Uncommon in jacket. (#52481).

First U.S. Edition. Octavo (19cm). Goldenrod cloth, lettered in black on spine and front cover; pictorial dustjacket; [i-vi],vii-ix,[x],325pp. Bit of dusting to text block edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in an uncommonly crisp dustwrapper, unclipped, slightly dusted overall with just a few tiny edge-nicks, brief splits a head and tail of rear panel; easily Very Good+. Bleiler-listed fantasy, set in Africa, of an abandoned boy raised by lions. Preceded by a London edition the previous year, and followed by a sequel (Kaspa, the Lion Man ) in 1933. Bleiler gives both titles a "juvenile" designation, though we find little to suggest, in our own sampling of the narrative, that the intended audience is any more juvenile than one would expect given the genre. BLEILER (Checklist, 1972), p.260, referencing the London edition only.