Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, 1888 - 1946 by Farmer, Philip Jose - 1981

New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Soft cover (roughly) 7" by 4 1/4" (inches) Tight square true & clean, flat spine, (xxii) 328 pages, minor edge wear. "The SUB-TITLE of this piece is: 'The Life of Lord Greystoke, 1888 - 1946'. Farmer spent four years searching British peerage records to determine the identity of the real LIFE person who Edgar Rice Burroughs based his Tarzan character on. He begins with 24 Burroughs titles and analyses all the gaps, and parallel, true events of history to come up with a biographical sketch of 'Lord Greystoke'. Farmer points out where E.R.B. took liberties with language and time sequences to CREATE an exciting world of fiction. He points out similarities between E.R.B.'s take on events, and those events as seen by A.C. Doyle. Call it literary detective work!" Contents include: The World Newton Family, 1795-1901 (Family Tree) / Forward / 1888: The World / Out to Sea / The Savage Home / Life and Death / The Apes / 1898: The World / The Difference / Loss and Revenge / Growing Up / 1908: The World / The Outsider: Dreamer and Joker / Kingship and Love / Renuniciation / From Ape to Savage / The Chief, the She, the City of Gold / Journeys' End / The Great Trek and the Elixir / The Beasts / Problems / The Waters of Lethe, the Jewels of Opar / War and Freedom / 1919: The World / Guru / The Lion and the Ants / Lord of Many Places / 1929: The World / Exit Tarzan, Smiling / Tarzan and the Monomyth / The Rest Is Silence / Addendum 1: A Case of Identity / Addendum 2: A Case of a Case of Identity Recased / Addendum 3: The Greystoke Lineage / Addendum 4: What Happened to Black Michael? / Addendum 5: Chronology / A Selected Bibliography / Index. The scan you see is the book you get. 1st Playboy Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Uncredited. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.