Bomba the jungle boy among the Pygmies, or, Battling with stealthy foes

Date:

[1931]

Author:

Rockwood, Roy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004121688 http://viaf.org/viaf/39887549.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH R684 B6A LOCAL

Publisher:

Cupples & Leon Company Publishers

Abstract:

Bomba the Jungle Boy is a series of American boy's adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood and published by Cupples & Leon in the first half of the 20th century in imitation of the successful Tarzan series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba,_the_Jungle_Boy.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 212 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustration ; 20 cm.

Series:

The Bomba books / by Rob Rockwood ; 12 and Rockwood, Roy. Bomba books ; 12.

Notes:

Yellow cloth, with illustration and title stamped in black; illustrated endpapers; red top edge. Color illustrated dust jacket, with off-white spine; list of publisher's "The Best Books for Boys and Girls" on verso.

Curator Notes:

Cupples & Leon, c 1930, with dust jacket [not printed before 1938 acc to list on dj; Bomba Books v12; spine titles and front cover titles and vignette printed in black on light tan cloth

Subjects:

Bomba the Jungle Boy (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction, Teenage boys Africa Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Adventure stories, Jungles Africa Juvenile fiction, Jungles Juvenile fiction, Pygmies Juvenile fiction, Survival Juvenile fiction, Adventure stories, Jungles, and Pygmies

Genres/Forms:

Dust jackets (Bindings) 1931. rbbin, Publishers' advertisements 1931. rbgenr, Fiction, and Juvenile works

Geographic Terms:

Africa Juvenile fiction