Back to the Stone Age

Edgar Rice "E R" Burroughs (1875-1950)

Published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, CA, 1937

About this Item

318+[1] pages with frontispiece and illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with orange lettering, in original pictorial jacket (Heins BSA1; Zeuschner 25) First edition.

Back to the Stone Age is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series set in the lost world of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a six-part serial in Argosy Weekly from January 9 to February 13, 1937, under the title Seven Worlds to Conquer. It was first published in book form in hardcover by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in September, 1937 under the present title, and has been reissued a number of times since by various publishers.

The story reveals the fate of Wilhelm von Horst, the lost member of the previous book's outer world expedition to Pellucidar, which had been led by Jason Gridley and Tarzan to rescue Pellucidarian emperor David Innes from the Korsars. The action begins by recapping the incident in which Gridley, von Horst, and Tarzan's Waziri warriors, led by Muviro, are caught up in and separated by a horde of saber-toothed tigers? cooperative hunt. Now on his own, von Horst quickly becomes lost, links up again with the Waziri by accident, and gets lost again when he foolishly goes out hunting on his own.

Condition: Small stain to rear panel; toning to endpapers, some occasional fingering. Minor chipping and wear to edges of jacket with wear at edges and corners of boards else very good in like jacket.

Seller Inventory # L0899

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Back to the Stone Age
• Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, CA
• Publication Date: 1937
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: John Coleman Burroughs
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2 kilograms
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