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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.