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Edgar Rice Burrough. The Outlaw of Torn. A.C. McClurg & Co, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Covers worn. End paper missing. Hinges a little weak.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Outlaw of Torn. A C McClurg & Co, Chicago, IL, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A 2nd print ("First Reprinting, March 1927" on the copyright page) of the 1st edition of one of Burroughs' historical novels and the second book he wrote. Bright red boards with sharp gilt lettering. A sharp & bright front panel of the J Allen St John illustrated DJ has been pasted to the FFEP. The binding is tight. he pages are an unmarked creamy white. A very good or better copy.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice [1875-1950]. THE OUTLAW OF TORN. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Meets the criteria for the FIRST EDITION listed in Zeuschner. 8vo. [6]1-298p. Red cloth with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine. Wear to extremities with the corners just rubbed through, top and bottom of spine starting to fray, gilt dulled, covers lightly soiled with some spotting, front hinge cracked but book still tight, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. List of books opposite the title page has THE MAD KING as the last book. Copyright page shows the acorn design of the McClurg Company.
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Smaller Octavo. Bright red cloth covered boards and spine with red gilt lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of a couple of the outside corners. Lettering on the spine is not a shiny as it once was, but is still easy to read; lettering on front board still shiny. Cream colored endpapers. Very light ding in the outside edge of the front board. Binding has a very slight forward lean, but is tight. Light cream colored pages are all clean and crisp. 298 pages. No dust jacket. Tight and clean. Burrough's second book is an adventure tale set in 13th Century England, first serialized in New Story Magazine from January to May 1914.
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn [true first edition]. A. C. McClurg & Co, Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$279.95 + shipping
Description: Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1927. Photos upon request. Good+ condition. Only a couple tiny spots to the original gilt-stamped red cloth binding. Spine lettering a little dull. Hinges are NOT cracked. Small bookstore label on rear pastedown endpaper. A few pages show small brown spots (foxing?). NO owner's name or bookplate. First Printing of the First Edition, with NO statement of printing on the copyright page, but with the publisher's acorn device (as called for by Currey). NOTE: This is true first edition published February 1927, NOT the First Reprinting from March 1927. Zeuschner 381. Heins OT #1 (page 170). Currey p. 91. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. (vi), 298pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book has been bound in a medium red cloth with faded gilt lettering on the front board and spine. There is rubbing and the cloth has darkened over the years, minor spotting on boards. There is corner bumping and edge wear, board just beginning to show. Small tear on head of spine near the back board. On the list of books by author across from the title page, someone has inked "The Outlaw of Torn" and "The Girl From Hollywood" in very small lettering at the bottom of the list. Text has yellowed with age but appears clean and is solid in it's binding. No sign of foxing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. The Outlaw Of Torn. A. C. McClurg & Co, Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original dark red cloth, lettered in gilt to the front panel and spine. Previous owner signature and date - January, 1928 - present on the front free endpaper. The book shows some moderate soiling but remains solid. Some very minor foxing to the title page. Now presented with a fine facsimile dust jacket. Dust jacket art by J. Allen St. John. There are no interior illustrations. McClurg issued only 6,000 copies of both the first and second editions. Zeuschner # 381. Very Good / Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn. A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small Octavo. Original red cloth, printed in gilt. Owner name and date on front pastedown. A near fine copy.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn. A.C. McClurg & Co, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, FIrst Printing. Bright red cloth with gilt titles. Hand written date on front end paper, otherwise internally Fine. Bumped corners, edge soiling. Rubbing on spine.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Outlaw of Torn. , 1927.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1927 First Edition Hardcover Very Good/No Dust Jacket A C McClurg & Co, Pub, Chicago, IL, 1927; 1st edition; good condition; bound in red cloth with gold lettering: moderate stains to cover, with a new facsimile dust jacket; Edgar Rice Burroughs; Modern First Editions
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE OUTLAW OF TORN. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-298, jacket by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Total of 6000 copies printed. There were at least two printings, second so identified on verso of title leaf. Exploits of Norman of Torn, the greatest swordsman in England and leader of an outlaw band of more than one thousand men. Heins OT-1. Inked gift inscription to front free end paper, a fine copy in a good to very good dust jacket with wear to front panel fold with closed tears and chips, closed tear and chip to lower front panel with clear tape repair, small chip to lower spine, small chip to upper spine, soiling to rear panel with a chip to upper left rear corner. (31177)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, with the McClurg acorn device on the copyright page; in original dust jacket. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettered front and spine. Dust jacket by J. Allen St. John. Heins X11-1. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. (1927), 298 pps. A fine square and tight copy with a tiny soil spot on bottom edge and front gutter; slightly pushed front tips. Good jacket has four restored hole punches near top edge, and a 2" split on upper front flap fold; vertical folds on rear panel. 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 OUTLAW OF TORN. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-298, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. Total of 6000 copies printed. There were at least two printings, second so identified on verso of title leaf. Exploits of Norman of Torn, the greatest swordsman in England and leader of an outlaw band of more than one thousand men. Heins OT-1. A fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with light wear and slight loss at spine ends and corner tips, general soiling to spine and rear panels, and several short closed tears in rear panel. A nice copy of an uncommon book with a colorful and attractive example of the very scarce jacket. (#151469)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Outlaw of Torn (inscribed by author). Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Outlaw of Torn" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Octavo. [6], 298 pages. Publisher's red cloth, spine and front lettered in gilt; all text block edges trimmed; original illustrated dust jacket, restored. Binding a bit smudged, with wear at extremities; backstrip faded just a shade; lettering tarnished; darkening along front joint, wear at rear. Endpapers and text block slightly yellowed with age; ownership stamp at rear free endpaper. Jacket restored at spine panel, edges, and flap folds, with color added at verso (now starting to flake a bit along panel folds); general rubbing. Very good book in a fair jacket. Zeuschner, p. 229-230. From the Albert E. Willis Collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE OUTLAW OF TORN. A. C. McClurg, 1927.
Price: US$5864.50 + shipping
Description: THE OUTLAW OF TORN, McClurg, 1927, first edition, a bright vg/vg+ copy in an attractive dust-wrapper with some chipping, mostly to the dust-wrapper spine extremities and with some other wear and tear. Very scarce in dust-wrapper and most rare indeed INSCRIBED (as this copy is at the time of publication). The authors second written work, following THE PRINCESS OF MARS, but preceding TARZAN OF THE APES. A most desirable copy of this early work in the Burroughs canon.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE OUTLAW OF TORN. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-298, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. Total of 6000 copies printed. There were at least two printings, second so identified on verso of title leaf. Exploits of Norman of Torn, the greatest swordsman in England and leader of an outlaw band of more than one thousand men. Heins OT-1. Strip of light tanning to endpapers along gutter margins, a bright, near fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with light wear at spine ends and corner tips, general soiling to spine and rear panels, several very short closed tears, two at upper end of spine panel, both with small internal tape mends, and two very faint, partial blue horizontal lines along top and bottom edges of front and rear panels (offset from an old jacket "protector") which are barely noticeable externally. A nice copy of an uncommon book with a colorful and attractive example of the very scarce jacket. (#111855)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.