Tarzan the untamed

A.C. McClurg & Co, 1920-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/New Facsimile DJ. Hardcover with new facsimile DJ, First Edition 1920 A.C. McClurg & Co 428 pages. Very Good, lacking the DJ. Moderate shelf/edge wear, small fade spot to front panel and minor soiling/smudges to olive green cloth boards with dark maroon titles - corners lightly bumped. Previous owner name and notation on FFEP. All pages are clean and unmarked with the exception of pg 70 and 71 which has darkening from a newspaper clipping left in and long discarded. 24 chapters and 9 illustrations by J. Allen St John. All plates are intact. First edition, first issue, with the publisher's imprint printed in two lines on the spine and Donohue mentioned on the copyright page. Published April, 1920, on the copyright page. Housed in a new facsimile DJ that is quite beautiful and protected by a mylar cover. This was the seventh novel in the Tarzan series. In the year 1914, while John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika. On his return he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane. Maddened, the ape-man seeks revenge not only on the perpetrators of the tragedy but upon all Germans, and sets out for the battle front of the war in West Africa. A very respectable First Edition with a new facsimile DJ to protect it for generations to come. LOC SSS-08