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THE MAD KING ..
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Page edges and endpapers just a bit tanned, a fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1926. First edition, first state with the textual errors on pages 12 and 92 not corrected. Page edges and endpapers just a bit tanned, a fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with four nicks and closed tears, each with small internal tape mend, a tiny hole in front flap (no printing affected) with small label pasted over it, and some light general dust soiling to spine and rear panels. A nice example of the uncommon jacket. (25713). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-365 [366: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by J. Allen St. John, original dark blue cloth, front panel stamped in orange and blind, spine panel stamped in orange. 5000 copies printed. A swashbuckling adventure novel of high romance and intrigue set in the imaginary European kingdom of Lutha. Heins MK-1.
Synopsis
From the book:ALL LUSTADT was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd surged to and fro, awaiting they knew not what. For ten years no man of them had set eyes upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father. There had been murmurings then when the lad's uncle, Peter of Blentz, had announced to the people of Lutha the sudden mental affliction which had fallen upon his nephew, and more murmurings for a time after the announcement that Peter of Blentz had been appointed Regent during the lifetime of the young King Leopold, "or until God, in His infinite mercy, shall see fit to restore to us in full mental vigor our beloved monarch."
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25713
- Title
- THE MAD KING ..
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used - Page edges and endpapers just a bit tanned, a fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first state with the textual errors on pages 12 a
- Publisher
- A. C. McClurg & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Adventure Fiction
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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