FOSTER, ALAN DEAN (NOVELIZATION) — Luana

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0345237935. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Frank Frazetta. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine book number 23793 with a price of 1.25. This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some very beginning bumping and rubbing. The spine of the book has a couple of small spots of discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright, but have some light generalized toning throughout. " Novelization of a 1968 Italian film Luana la figlia delle foresta vergine about a "girl Tarzan". "Ballantine hired him to write the novelization of the 1968 Italian film (which was subtitled The Girl Tarzan) , the rights to which had been secured for American/English distribution. There was no English translation of the script and no copy of the film available with subtitles. So Foster watched the movie in Italian (which he did not speak) and then wrote his own original novel, based heavily on the cool Frank Frazetta movie poster." [info from a 2021 review on Goodreads by "Craig"]" (found on the ISFDB website). Very Good .