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Price: US$14.60 + shipping
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [c.1925]. Fair with no dust jacket. 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint. Heins CaG-3. Red cloth with black lettering, black-and-white frontispiece, 323 pages plus 5 pages of ads at the rear. Reading/filler copy [spine cocked with fraying to the head rear corner, cloth worn and soiled, the rear hinge is badly cracked and the rear free endleaf has been removed] [lacking the Dust Wrapper]. .
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Cave Girl. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1925.
Price: US$30.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Cave Girl, Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1925. First Grosset Edition, March, 1925. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 323pp. with frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth boards with black titles spine and front. Small soil mark, inked number to free endpaper; small inked stamp rear endpaper and otherwise contents are clean without markings, tears or folds; a light spine lean; light edge rubbing. In very good condition. A lost civilization on a large prehistoric island off the shipping lines that is 'seldom visited'. Washed ashore, Boston-bred Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones sets off into the interior of the dark jungle and is attacked by a tribe of cliff dwellers and saved by a cave princess, Nadara. The Cave Girl was first published in serial form in All-Story magazine between 1913 and 1917. The book was released by A. C. McClurg in 1925; the Grosset & Dunlop edition is the first reprint.
Seller: Back Lane Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Cave Girl. A.C. McClurg & Co, Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$97.74 + shipping
Description: Original blue cloth covered boards with dark blue title and author name stamped to front cover and spine. Rubbing at spine ends and corners with rear hinge starting. Spine lean and soiling round out the description. Good filler copy.
Seller: The Book Merchant, LLC, Stillwater, OK, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Cave Girl. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 323 pages, 8vo, some moderate wear to the edges and corners of the cover, some spotting and soiling to the cover, some foxing and browning to the page edges, inner binding is slightly cracked.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE CAVE GIRL. A.C. McClurg: Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontis, 7.5 x 5", blue cloth, 323pp, covers quite rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, spine with vertical creasing, contents toned but clean, in a facsimile dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$505.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This "good" McClurg Chicago first printing of "The Cave Girl" (in dark blue boards, Zeuschner 80, states "Published March, 1925" to copyright page, M.A. Donohue printer's credit, no later printings mentioned) comes from the estate of Stanleigh Vinson with his silver "Sands of Times" bookplate, and bears TWO dust jackets. PLEASE READ OUR DETAILED DECSPRIPTION OF THESE TWO DUST JACKETS: Original McClurg jacket with wonderful color art by J. Allen St. John is present but "poor" -- the front panel has been trimmed down and glued to front pastedown; rear panel with 1-3/4 X 2-1/2-inch blue duotone portrait of the author with Burroughs bio beneath has been trimmed and tipped to the Rear Free Endpaper; spine and flaps of that original McClurg jacket discarded. Book (of which 5,000 copies were printed) is now wrapped in the first Grosset & Dunlap jacket (1926, Zeuschner 81), duplicating the St. John full color art to front panel, with 12 (NOT 16 or more) ERB titles listed to rear panel. This G&D jacket from the following year is complete but moderately age-browned: "very good." Stanleigh Vinson (1909-1982), "The Dean of ERB Collectors" has rubber stamped his name to top right of the McClurg jacket front panel now glued to front pastedown, has glued his silver "Sands of Time" bookplate to free front endpaper, and has SIGNED his name with West Third Street address to the title page. (Book signed by notable collector Stan Vinson, book NOT signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, no matter what the ABE computer says.) While Vinson lived, many a serious Burroughs collector would make pilgrimage to Vinson's home in Mansfield, Ohio, where he had assembled the largest known collection of Burroughs first editions; reprints; editions from foreign countries including Poland, China, Japan, Argentina, India, Norway, and also in Hebrew; magazine stories; newspaper serials; movie posters and billboard advertisements; five complete Tarzan films including the first silent film, "Tarzan And the Apes" (starring Elmo Lincoln), and original oil paintings by the illustrator of many of the books, J. Allen St. John. Below the blue duotone portrait of author Burroughs now tipped to rear free endpaper, original text credits Burrorughs as "creator of Tarzan, John Carter, Barney Custer, Billy Byrne (The Mucker) and other notable fiction characters." To top of this clipping in a small hand, a previous owners has written "Who is Barney Custer? in what book?" Barney Custer was, of course (as who could forget?) the Nebraska farmboy who visits the Eastern European kingdom of Lutha on the brink of World War One, only to discover he is, of course, the spitting image of the imprisoned rightful king Leopold, who is engaged to the lovely Princess Emma, with whom Barney (needless to say) promptly falls in love, in Burroughs' "The Mad King" (1915.). This volume 323 pp. now reduced from $700.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Cave Girl. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the First Issue dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Cave Girl. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. First edition. Inscribed by the author, "To Major O. M. Baldinger / with sincere good wishes / Edgar Rice Burroughs / Los Angeles / June 4 [?] 1925" and accompanied by a typed letter signed addressed to Major Baldinger. Octavo. [8], 232, [1, blank] pages. Sepia frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and front lettered in dark green (first state, with spine stating title only as Cave Girl); all text block edges trimmed. Lacking dust jacket. Spine ends pushed and showing a bit of wear; backstrip slightly faded, as is common with this title; hint of rubbing and soiling to boards; mild wear along joints and at board edges and corners. Endpapers and text block softly yellowed; rear hinge cracked but still sound with spot of soiling at rear free endpaper; gutter cracked between half-title and frontispiece, with remains and residue of tape on reverse of frontispiece where typed letter signed was previously taped. Very good. Zeuschner, p. 55. From the Albert E. Willis Collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.. The Cave Girl.. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: 323 pp. Frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's lettered cloth; the rear flap of the dust jacket (only) is laid in. First edition. Extremities of spine very slightly rubbed; some very slight tanning to endsheets; spine slightly faded. Otherwise a tight, bright copy. Signed presentation copy from Edgar Rice Burroughs to his daughter, Joan Burroughs. Inscribed by Edgar Rice Burroughs on the flyleaf with an original ink drawing of an elegant young man smoking a cigarette, "a modern Cave-man," from "Papa, Los Angeles, April 4, 1925." On the front pastedown is affixed a magazine cartoon of cave women at a beauty shop.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs (First Edition) St. John Art A firm square copy with minor rubbing to edges. A faint dampstain to fore-edge (see pic). A bright original jacket with minimal edgewear, a few short closed tears to back edge. Protective clear cover. First Edition, first printing. "Published March, 1925" stated on copyright page. McClurg made only this one printing. Blue cloth, dark green lettering, "A. C. McClurg" on the spine. Jacket and Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Cave Girl. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$5200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition with "Published March, 1925" and " M. A. DONOHUE & CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO" on the copyright page; in original dust jacket. Publisher's original blue cloth with the front and spine lettered in dark green. Dust jacket and frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Heins X6-1. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. (March, 1925), 323 pps. A fine square copy with slightly darkened top edge; gift inscription dated Feb 28-1925 and an ink stamp to f.f.e. Original un-restored jacket with modest edge wear and a chip at upper rear flap. From the "Astonishing Edgar Rice Burroughs collection" of Howard Frank. "Almost every copy in best available condition", in original jackets, many signed.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE CAVE GIRL .. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1925.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-323 [324: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by J. Allen St. John, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. First binding with "A. C. McCLURG / & CO" at base of spine panel. 5000 copies printed. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 42. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-59. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 333. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 106. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02277. Heins CaG-1. Top edge of text block a little dusty, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with tiny closed tear and associated small crease to upper right front corner, touch of shelf wear to upper spine end, and very light dust soiling to rear panel. A stunning, bright example of a jacket rarely found in such exceptional condition. (#136730)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.