Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Mucker. Methuen, 1921.
Price: US$21.91 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1921. 201 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Mucker. Methuen & Co., 1921.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: 189 x 125mm, greyish blue cloth, spine lettered & ornamented in black, upper cover lettered in black within art-nouveau style floral frame, pp.202, 8pp publisher's catalogue. Pencilled ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Spine & corners rubbed.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original slate blue cloth covers, floral framed black title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 201 [8 page catalogue] printed pages of text. Erased ownership marking to the front free end paper, rubbing to the covers, central gatherings open, no dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 5 other titles by this author. Reference of rebinding condition copy. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.. The Mucker.. Methuen & Co. Ltd. London, 1921.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Description: First edition, UK. Hardback. No DW. v, 201pp. + 8pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. Original blue cloth, blind decorated and with black lettering. Board extremities bumped, spine very slightly faded. Inner hinge cracked, pages slightly browned o/w contents clean with no inscriptions. VG.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Mucker (+ mint facsimile dj).. Methuen & Co Ltd: London, 1921.
Price: US$134.49 + shipping
Description: ''First published in Great Britain in 1921'' stated on the copyright page: 8-page catalogue at rear. Original blue cloth, blind decorated and with black lettering. Preceded the US McClurg edition by several weeks: UK publication date being 6th October 1921, US publication date 31st October 1921 (see Currey, SF and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography Of First Printings Of Their Fiction, p. 90). Note too that the McClurg edition printed the whole novel - UK publication was split into two volumes, THE MUCKER (1921) and THE MAN WITHOUT A SOUL (1922). A solid VG copy (+ mint facsimile dustjacket).
Seller: COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, United Kingdom
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE MUCKER / TRUE FIRST EDITION. Methuen, 1921.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: THE MUCKER, Methuen, 1921, first edition, some wear to the fore edge corner tips, some soiling to the covers, else a good to very good copy with vg+ contents.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE MUCKER & THE MAN WITHOUT A SOUL. Methuen, 1921.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: THE MUCKER & THE MAN WITHOUT A SOUL, Methuen, 1921 & 1922 respectively, first edition of the former and first separate edition of the latter (the latter not published separately in the U.S.), some light soil and dustiness to both, else good to very good copies. (As new facsimile dust-wrappers are available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE MUCKER. Methuen, 1921.
Price: US$4805.50 + shipping
Description: THE MUCKER, Methuen, 1921, first edition, a bright vg+ copy in a vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear and light dust-soil. The only Burroughs title whose first edition text in book form was published outside of the U.S. and the only copy I can recall seeing in dust-wrapper in over 25 years. Rare.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.