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Bomba the Jungle Boy: Among the Pygmies
by Roy Rockwood
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1931. Hardcover. Good. Vintage edition, missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with black print on front and spine. Decorative endpapers - boys sports design. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper, dated Christmas 1933. Frontispiece on glossy paper opposite title page. Pages clean and unmarked. Cupples & Leon hard cover, missing dust jacket, 1931 edition, no printing stated, 212 pages. 8vo (7.5"" x 5"") List of titles on copyright page goes through this book. Bomba the Jungle Boy Among the Pygmies; or, Battling with Stealthy Foes, #12 in the Bomba series, by Roy Rockwood, was originally published in 1931 by Cupples & Leon. Various sources say the author was Howard R. Garis, or John William Duffield. (Roy Rockwood is a pen name.) Preceded by Bomba the Jungle Boy in a Strange Land; or, Facing the Unknown; and followed by Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Cannibals; or, Winning Against Native Dangers and others. The Bomba series, which had been the South American answer to Tarzan for young readers, moves to Africa with the 11th book and stays there for the rest of the series. While Bomba #1 - #10 were widely reprinted by Grosset and Dunlap and other publishers, #11 - #20 were never reprinted and are scarce today.
Synopsis
Bomba, the Jungle Boy was a series of American boy's adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood and published by Cupples and Leon in the first half of the 20th century in imitation of the successful Tarzan series. There were 20 books in the series. The first 10 were set in South America, where Bomba, who grew up in the jungle, tries to discover his origin.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09012303Bomba12car
- Title
- Bomba the Jungle Boy: Among the Pygmies
- Author
- Roy Rockwood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cupples & Leon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 212
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bomba the Jungle Boy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Childrens books;
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