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The Outlaw of Torn

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Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: Reprint Edition
Size: 8vo; [viii], 298, [14] pages
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [ca. 1928], New York

[Book #45170]

Reprint Edition in red cloth with black lettering. Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities in alike, lightly toned dust-jacket by J. Allen St. John. 28 publications listed in the advertising pages at the back of the book. The copyright page repeats the McClurg inscription, "First reprinting: March, 1927" even though G&D actually reprinted this title in 1928. Zeuschner 383;

"At seventeen he was the greatest swordsman in England; at eighteen his reputation as a fearless outlaw had traveled throughout the land and there was a tremendous price upon his head; at nineteen he was the leader of a fierce robber band of more than a thousand men, from noblemen to serf, the only requisites for admission being willingness and ability to fight and an oath to obey the Outlaw of Torn" (from the dust-jacket)
The Outlaw of Torn
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Author Bio 

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Sept. 1, 1875 – Mar. 19, 1950), Chicago born author, best known for his creation of the jungle legend Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter.

By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and began to write fiction. Aiming his work at pulp fiction magazines, his first story Under the Moons of Mars was serialized in 1912. He soon took up writing full-time and by the time Under the Moons of Mars had finished, he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes. Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (e.g., Barsoom, Burroughs' fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his for Venus). Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced and remains one of the most successful fictional characters of all times.

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