Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Pellucidar. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923.

8vo. 4 plates after J. Allen St. John. Original red-orange cloth lettered in black (spine lightly sunned, a tiny bit of rubbing and wear to extremes); dust jacket (light edgewear reinforced with cellotape along edges, also on verso along spine). Provenance: Hulbert Burroughs (1909-1991), son of Edgar Rice Burroughs (author's inscription; ownership inscription on verso of dust jacket: "Hulbert Burroughs, Tarzana Ranch, April 23, 1925, L.A., California"); Otto Penzler (his sale, Heritage, 15 October 2020, lot 45055).

THE OTTO PENZLER COPY.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BURROUGHS TO HIS SON on the front free pastedown: "Hulbert Burroughs, with love, from Papa, Tarzana Ranch, Sept 5 1923." The inscription is dated the day of publication and reflects Burroughs’s well-documented practice of presenting the first copy of each newly issued book to his son, Hulbert Burroughs, who frequently assisted his father in managing the affairs of Tarzana Ranch and the growing literary enterprise surrounding the Tarzan series.

Pellucidar is the second novel in the Pellucidar series, following At the Earth’s Core. The work first appeared in serial form in All-Story Cavalier Weekly in May 1915 before its publication in book form. Bleiler, Science Fiction 312; Zeuschner 388.

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Pellucidar. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923.

The Library of Stephen J. Farber

Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Pellucidar. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923.

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