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TARZAN OF THE APES
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Inked name and address on front free end paper, wear to corner tips and spine ends, a good copy in a good dust jacket with wear
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1927-30]. Later edition. Inked name and address on front free end paper, wear to corner tips and spine ends, a good copy in a good dust jacket with wear to corner tips and spine ends with some minor loss, rubbing to front fold, color fade to spine panel, crease at lower front panel. (24920). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-392, inserted illustrated frontispiece, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black. First of the Tarzan series. Heins TA-6. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints TA-2b. Jacket variant 3b.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24920
- Title
- TARZAN OF THE APES
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used - Inked name and address on front free end paper, wear to corner tips and spine ends, a good copy in a good dust jacket with wear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c. 1927-30]
- Keywords
- Adventure Fiction . Fantasy . Film Source
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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