Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. The Lad and The Lion. Ace 1938, 1938.
Price: US$5.22 + shipping
Description: paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Lad and the Lion (Ace Books #46870). Ace Books January 1938, 1938.
Price: US$7.01 + shipping
Description: Yellowing of pages due to age.
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Stated first. Cover shows minor wear, no dust jacket. Name of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, California, 1938.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owner's bookplate on first free endpaper. Some wear to edges and corners, especially head and tail of spine. Spine lightly faded. Binding loose. A few stains on boards. Otherwise good.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Lad and the Lion. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1938.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 317, [2] pp. Red cloth binding, black lettering cover and spine, 1 1/2 in. blemish on cover, ffep removed, else very good condition. (96738).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, California, 1938.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first on one of ERB's harder to find independent novels. Light wear to the spine. A very good copy of a scarce item.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Grosset & Dunlap, 1938.
Price: US$224.95 + shipping
Description: 317pp. Very good lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket foxed. Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Fine: There is a crease where folded at the rear joint. The jacket is was never used: there are no other folds. NOTE; This is the inscribed and signed dust ONLY. The book is not present.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Blue boards and spine with bright red lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine with light accompanying rubbing. Light rubbing at the very tips of the four outside corners. Just a trace of rubbing along the front edge of the spine. Light cream colored endpapers. Light tape ghost marks on the lower edges of the free front and front endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Light cream colored pages are all clean and crisp. 317 pages. Dust Jacket - is a facsimile jacket and has a nearly unnoticable wrinkle at the head and tail of the spine, but is otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. An attractive copy. Part of a large and inclusive Edgar Rice Burroughs consignment - if there's a different Edgar Rice Burroughs book you're searching for, please inquire.
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Lad and the Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs (First Edition) Bumping and rubbing to corners, spine ends, and along edges. Slight sun fading to spine. Wear to edges and spine ends. Small tears to top and bottom cover with tape Ghosts. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Lad and the Lion. Grosset & Dunlap, 1938.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pub by Grosset & Dunlap, copyright date 1938. NOT exLib. VG or better cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Red cloth over bds w/ black lettering on cover & spine. Pict dec has heads of boy & lion on spine. No Frontis illus. P/O's brief gift inscription on ffep, dated 1940. A very nice copy of theis very scarce title. 317pp + 2pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG or better cond. We also have most of the other Tarzan titles in editions fr this same era, some listed online, some not, & we'd be happy to combine postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1938.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The volume is lightly rubbed and bumped at the spine ends; the pages are very lightly toned. The unclipped FACSIMILE dust jacket, sleeved in mylar, has just trace wear.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana CA, 1938.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pictorial jacket is chipped with some insect damage along spine fold, top 1.5" of spinecover and thin wedge of front is missing. Blue boards with red lettering have rubbed edges. Fep has ink notation and prior owners name. One illustration plate is detatched, but laid-in book. P. 57 has a name written in the margin. Pages are otherwise clean with no markings in text. Binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Edger Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, CA, 1938.
Price: US$394.99 + shipping
Description: Pages yellowing, bookplate fep. DJ shelfwear,; First edition, in a Grosset and Dunlap (i. E. Reprint) dust jacket.; 12mo; 317 pages pages
Seller: Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, CA, 1938.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A stated 1st edition (bright & sharp blue cloth w/red lettering) of one Burroughs' earliest independent novels that was not published in book form until the late 1930s. The DJ illustration and 5 interior plates are by Burroughs' son - John Coleman Burroughs. Bright and sharp 1st state laminated DJ ($2.00 price intact on the front flap) however there is internal tape reinforcement at the top of the spine and inside the front flap fold that have stained the exterior. The book is clean & crisp. A particularly nice copy of a hard to find ERB, Inc 1st.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1938.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First Edition. Blue pebbled boards with red lettering on front cover and spine, red top edge stain. Five B&W plates. In first state, laminated, unclipped dust jacket. Edges of pages slightly yellowed. Orange lettering on spine has aged to a mustard color, otherwise a clean, bright jacket with some very shallow chipping to the spine head. (w)
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE LAD AND THE LION .. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, California, 1938.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-317 [318: blank] [319: ads] [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. First edition. Adventure fiction set in contemporary North Africa. The Lad and the Lion, a 1917 silent film made by the Selig Polyscope Company was the first motion picture based on a Burroughs story. Reginald 02287. Heins LL-1. A fine copy in fine first state (laminated) pictorial dust jacket with wear at edges, two closed tears at upper edge of front panel, both with internal tape mends, small spot at upper spine edge, and a 15x20 mm v-chip from upper right corner of rear panel. (#151460)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Lad and the Lion. Burroughs, 1938.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine book in a fine protected jacket with just a hint of fading on the jacket spine (see photo). Cover art and five plates by John Coleman Burroughs. At 84 I am disposing of my 50+ year personal ERB collection.
Seller: Crowder's Fine Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A bright first edition/first printing, blue cloth with red tettering on the front cover and spine in Near Fine condition with light wear to extremities and prior owner's stamp to front free end paper in Very Good+, laminated dust-jacket with little edgewear and limited chipping. Zeuschner 235; The story of the Lad who might have been king, parallels that of his uncle and cousin who in succession become king; and though the life of the Lad was one of cruelty, dangers, and privations, there are few but who would choose to have been the Lad rather than the kin who wore the crown ; 8vo; [ii], [6], 7-317, [3] pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-317 [318: blank] [319: ads] [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. Adventure fiction set in contemporary North Africa. The Lad and the Lion, a 1917 silent film made by the Selig Polyscope Company was the first motion picture based on a Burroughs story. Reginald 02287. Heins LL-1. A fine copy in a nearly fine first state (laminated) pictorial dust jacket with a tiny nick to the upper front panel, a closed tear to the upper rear panel and slight fade to the orange ink of the spine panel. (31211)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, 1938.
Price: US$785.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First edition in original dust jacket; publisher's pebbled blue cloth with front and spine lettered in red, top edge stained red. Dust jacket and five interior illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Heins X19-1. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (1938), 317 pages. This VG+ copy has sunned/toned and slightly fraying spine ends, fading to top edge. Fine jacket with a small piece of tape on verso that seals a 1/2" tear on lower front cover. 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.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Lad and the Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1st Edition John Coleman Burroughs Art A firm square copy with moderate rubbing to extremities, slight ding to cover and spine at mid section edge. Small P.O. Newstand sticker to front pastedown. A sharp bright gorgeous dust jacket. Blue pebbled boards, spine and cover lettered red-orange, top edges orange. 5 b/w illustration plates.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. THE LAD AND THE LION. BURROUGHS 1938, 1938.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover A TINY BIT OF WEAR AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE- ELSE A LOVELY COPY SIGNED Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers.
Seller: Mystery Mike's, Carmel, IN, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Tarzana: Burroughs, 1938.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed to a prior owner and signed by Burroughs on the fly leaf. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with dust jacket. Some edge-wear, the jacket with several nicks and minor tears, lacking part of the laminate on the rear panel. The text is a bit toned.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Lad and the Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs (First Edition) Signed Firm square copy with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. Slight soiling to spine. Not price-clipped. In clear protective cover. Stated first edition. John Coleman Burroughs art. Signed and inscribed by Burroughs on front free end page.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-317 [318: blank] [319: ads] [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. Inscribed and signed by Burroughs on the front free end paper. Adventure fiction set in contemporary North Africa. The Lad and the Lion, a 1917 silent film made by the Selig Polyscope Company was the first motion picture based on a Burroughs story. Reginald 02287. Heins LL-1. A fine copy in fine first state (laminated) pictorial dust jacket with a tiny 3 mm closed tear to the upper front panel. A sharp copy. (31173)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.