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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1918. First Edition. Very good in its original green cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and with bright gilt text on the front board. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with the cloth worn through over the tips of the boards and a very slight concave appearance to the spine.. Without its issued dust jacket. 350 pages of text followed by two leaves of ads for other Burroughs titles. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates from paintings by J. Allan St. John. The contents are clean, tight and free of foxing, tanning or any prior ownership markings of any kind.
Synopsis
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was published in 1916.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32186
- Title
- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. C. McClurg
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1918
Terms of Sale
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Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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