Tarzan and the Lost Empire First Edition

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PRESENTING a GLORIOUSLY RARE BOOK …. Tarzan and The Lost Empire First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Metropolitan 1929 1st … more PRESENTING a GLORIOUSLY RARE BOOK …. Tarzan and The Lost Empire First Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Metropolitan 1929 1st Edition.

Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-313 [314: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by A. W. Sperry, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 327. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 122. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02325. Heins LE-2. Has some condition issues so we would describe it as being in ‘fair’ condition. Some water damage to front cover, transferance of dust jacket image from ‘Tarzan Triumphant’ on the back cover. No dust jacket, Some foxing and evidence of water damage to first and last couple of pages. Spine slightly loose and torn at back cover. Otherwise the main body of the book is quite good. Metropolitan Books Publishers [1929], New York, 1929. First edition, first binding.

Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October, 1912; the first book edition was published in 1914 by A.C. McClurg & Co in Chicago. The publisher was made famous by their original publishing of the Tarzan of the Apes novels and other stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes tells the story of Tarzan (“White Skin” in ape language) who is adopted as a baby by the she-ape Kala after his parents, the Lord and Lady Greystoke, pass away after being marooned in West Africa. Immediately popular, Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels, and the Tarzan character has been immortalized in books, films and television since. Tarzan was the first literary character to be registered in a trademark. Tarzan and the Castaways was the last finished story by Burroughs, the 24th in his series on Tarzan. In addition to the title novella, the book also includes two short stories about Tarzan. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure is a novel by American writer Joe R. Lansdale, based on an incomplete fragment of a Tarzan novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs which had been left unfinished at his death. The book was serialized in four parts by Dark Horse Comics, before being published as a single volume in 1995.

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