THE MAD KING (WITH DUSTJACKET)

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

THE MAD KING (WITH DUSTJACKET)

Entry/Object ID

96.60.1.11

Description

Book: "The Mad King" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, no date [reprint of a 1926 edition.]) A book (a), with dustjacket (b), set in the Balkan area of Europe about an American involved in political intrigue in a fictional country. The book has a red cover and the dustjacket has the title text in orange and author text in black with a color image of a man on horseback in some mountains on the front cover. The back cover has an early photograph of Burroughs and a list of his books. The book is in fair condition with stains on some of the first pages and discoloration on the page edges. The jacket is in fair condition with creases, tape discoloration, and some tears on the lower front cover. Purchased from Ava Kelley. In blue ink on the inside front cover is "WC Hall/5007 11th Ave/Los Angeles/Calif."; on the top right of the front page is written in pencil, "Burr.[?]/$3.75"

Lexicon

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Science fiction

Search Terms

Documentary Artifact, Books, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, Literature, American

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Books