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Edgar Rice Burroughs. Seven Early Tarzan Titles,... (Total: 7 Items)
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Description
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Seven Early Tarzan Titles, including: Tarzan of the Apes. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d., 1927]. Reprint edition. Octavo. 392 pages. Publisher's red cloth boards with the front and spine lettered in black. Frontispiece with silhouette by Fred J. Arting. Dust Jacket has light edge wear with slight sun-fading along the spine. Very good. [and:] The Return of Tarzan. New York: A. L. Burt Company, [n.d., 1916]. Reprint edition. Octavo. 365 pages. Publisher's green cloth boards with front and spine lettered in black. Cloth shows some rubbing with darkening to spine. Very good. [and:] The Beasts of Tarzan. New York: A. L. Burt Company, [n.d., 1917]. Reprint Edition. Octavo. 337 pages. Publisher's green cloth boards with front and spine lettered in black. Cloth shows some rubbing and soiling. Very good. [and:] Tarzan and the Ant Men. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d., 1950]. Reprint edition. Octavo. 346 pages. Publisher's green cloth boards with the front illustration and spine lettered in dark green. Tape shadows affecting first two pages of the front and rear. Verso of jacket has been bolstered with neatly applied archival tape at top and bottom of spine. Very good. [and:] Tarzan Lord of the Jungle. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d., 1929]. Reprint edition. Octavo. 377 pages. Publisher's red cloth boards with the front and spine lettered in black. Copyright page is taken from the A. G. McClurg plates and states second printing. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Jacket shows edge wear with some minor chipping to spine ends and corners. Very good. [and:] Tarzan and the Lost Empire. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [n.d., 1948]. Reprint edition. Octavo. 313 pages. Publisher's tan cloth boards with the front and spine lettered in blue. There is some darkening along the top edge of the book and jacket suggesting smoke-damage and that this copy may have survived the Burroughs warehouse fire that occurred in Tarzana on May 3, 1958. Very good. [and:] Tarzan at the Earth's Core. New York: Metropolitan Books Publishers, [1930]. First edition. Octavo. 301 pages. Publisher's green cloth boards with the front and spine lettered in black. Book has a slight lean, and a small label has been pulled from the rear pastedown. Jacket is from the Grosset & Dunlap reprint edition and shows some sun-fading along spine and small chips at spine ends. Very good. From the Frank Collection.Heins. Currey.
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2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2008
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