Auction Name: 2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 45279

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/6323*45279

Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Mucker. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1922.

8vo. Illustrated with 5 inserted plates, including frontispiece, by J. Allen St. John. Publisher's pale green cloth stamped in red. Original dust jacket, also illustrated by J. Allen St. John.

FIRST EDITION, second printing with "1922" present on title page.

Condition: Cloth soiled a bit; spine slightly sunned; mild edgewear; staining to boards; front hinge starting, rear hinge a little tender; mild stains to textblock edges. Dust jacket unclipped, price listed on rear panel as issued ($1.90); jacket somewhat brittle with folds and edges reinforced on verso with old and brittle tape; jacket heavily chipped; losses to head and tail of spine including loss of text on front panel; spine sunned and spine folds split; two tape repairs on spine panel; other soiling.

References: Heins M-2; Zeuschner (1996), 360; Zeuschner (2016), p. 216.

Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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