Luana

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"]

• "First Printing: February, 1974"; no number line
• "Soon to be a major Movie!" on title page
• Cover art credited to Frazetta on copyright page, no visible signature
• Has an SBN on the copyright page 234-23793-5-125 [typo, should be 345- ], correct SBN is on the spine; ISBN derived