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Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar. Metropolitan Books, New York, 1929.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 312 pp. Frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier, Blue cloth binding, black lettering cover and spine, spine lean, faint tape marks, else good condition. (96746).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.. Tanar of Pellucidar.. Metropolitan Books, New York, 1929.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 312 pp. Frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in black. First edition. Owner's name and date stamp on front free endpaper; spine sunned; rubbed at extremities of spine and corner tips.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar. Metropolitan Books, 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Dust jacket is a facsimile. Book very good, some wear, rubbing along edges, stamped address to top edge, some pages have minor soiling spots. Facsimile dj fine.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar - First Edition, 1930, Hardcover. Metropolitan, NY, 1929.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decent condition in a fine reproduction (Metropolitan) dust wrapper. The rear end paper has been glued to the cover ?? unknown reason although I can see some writing beneath the page however can not make out what has been written. Copyright in 1929 ( Blue Book Magazine, March-August, 1929) This is the First Hardcover Edition printed by Metropolitan in 1930. Bergen, P110. Size: Archival Wrapped Dust Jacket.
Seller: White Mountains, Rare Books and Maps, Lincoln, NH, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar. Metropolitan Books, New York, 1929.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Bright blue cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Miniscule blind-embossed ownership imprint on rear flyleaf; jacket a bit edgeworn, with tiny chips at spine head/tail, and bright but for sunned spine. A superb, tight and most attractive first edition of the third title in the "Hollow Earth" series. Paul F. Berdanier's frontispiece and wraparound jacket art are outstanding. Loincloth-clad Tanar and "the lovely Stellara" on jacket front panel look awfully like Tarzan and Jane. A lovely copy of this scarce title.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Tanar of Pellucidar. New York Metropolitan Books 1929, 1929.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Some slight rubbing, else near fine in a fine fresh dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1190.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition/first printing, dark blue cloth with black lettering in Very Good+ condition, lightly rubbed extremities in Very Good-, lightly spine-sunned dust-jacket with moderate edgewear and chipping. Zeuschner 520; Tanar, that gallant adventurer of Edgar Rice Burrough enters into startling exploits. The Pellucidar is in the hollow center of the earth, a world of savage men and pre-historic beasts. Here dwell the Buried People, here is the Land of the Awful Shadow, here the Korsar pirates terrorize the sea-coast towns ; 8vo; [ii], [6], 7-312 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.. Tanar of Pellucidar.. Chicago: Metropolitan Books, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of the third novel set in Burroughs's hollow earth land of Pellucidar, this copy with excellent provenance: "scientifictionist" Forrest J Ackerman's copy, with his book label on the front free endpaper. A writer of science fiction, magazine editor, and literary agent who represented Isaac Asmiov, Ray Bradbury, and L. Ron Hubbard, Ackerman (1916-2008) was one of the founders and earliest promoters of science fiction fandom, coining the term "sci-fi" in 1954 after hearing a radio advertisement for hi-fi record players. This copy of Tanar of Pellucidar likely passed into Ackerman's possession through the Boys Scientifiction Club, a correspondence club and lending library which the teenaged Ackerman founded in 1930 with fellow enthusiast Linus Hogenmiller (1917-1971), whose ownership stamps appear on the title page and p. 9. To join, members had to contribute three magazines or a hardback, which could then be borrowed by other members; it is possible that the present volume was one of the very first books given to the club's library. Ackerman held a deep affection for science fiction, and for Burroughs especially, throughout his life: at 14 years old, when one of his teachers dismissed Burroughs's books as "horrid literature out of the garbage cans", he wrote to the author himself to express his dissent: "I am a low Junior in High School. Today at school our teacher was discussing 'good literature'. I asked if Edgar Rice Burroughs was all right for a book report. I knew she'd say 'no' (teachers always do) but I didn't expect her to lecture to the class for the whole period about how terrible your books were!" To Ackerman's surprise, Burroughs replied, thanking him for his letter and asking him to "Tell your teacher that, though she may be right about my stories, there are some fifty million people in the world who will not agree with her, which is fortunate for me, since even writers of garbage-can literature must eat." Ackerman founded or co-founded several fan clubs and magazines in the years that followed, including The Time Traveler, the first fan magazine devoted entirely to science fiction; the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society and its fanzine, Imagination!, which in 1938 published Ray Bradbury's first short story; and Famous Monsters of Filmland, dedicated to horror films, to which the teenaged Stephen King submitted a story. As a journalist, Ackerman met Burroughs twice, interviewing him first in 1947 for Fantasy Review, and again in 1957 for Science Fiction Monthly. During their first interview at Burroughs's home in Tarzana, the suburb of Los Angeles which takes its name from the author's jungle hero, Burroughs signed one of his books for Ackerman: "He autographed for me one of the rarest of all his works, the novella Beyond Thirty, romance of a barbarian 'Grabitten' (Great Britain) of the 22nd Century, full of wild men and beasts" ("Forrest J Ackerman visits Edgar Rice Burroughs"). Ackerman was a prolific collector of books and memorabilia: before its dispersal in 2002, his collection comprised over 300,000 books, magazines, film stills and props, which filled his 18-room "Ackermansion", including "the ring worn by Bela Lugosi playing Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, or a monocle worn by Fritz Lang, who directed Ackerman's favourite film, Metropolis, to the very first Hugo Award, which he received from the World Science Fiction Convention in 1953. A prop casket from a Frankenstein film served as a coffin table, and the pterodactyl from King Kong hung from a ceiling" (The Guardian). Zeuschner 520; "Forrest J Ackerman visits Edgar Rice Burroughs", Fantasy Review, vol. 2, no. 12, 1947; The Guardian, 7 December 2008. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Edges rubbed with a couple of scuffs to corners, a very good copy in like dust jacket, extremities chipped and creased, spine faded, otherwise bright and unclipped.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom