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TARZAN OF THE APES
by BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Moderate Cover Wear/Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. Spine and front cover lettered in gilt.Rubbing both joints and corners. See photos. "Published, June, 1914" on copyright page. First issue cover without the acorn at foot of spine. "W.F. Hall Printing Co." at foot of copyright page in Old English type-face. A single illustration on title-page. Supplied with a FACSIMILE first edition dust jacket. This is the author's first novel published in a hard cover, AND it is the first book in the Tarzan series. McClurg published a total of 10,000 copies of the three issues of the first edition. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author in the genres of adveenture, science fiction, and fantasy, best-known for his characters Tarzan and John Carter. Tarzana's name was derived from the ape-words "Tar" and "Zan" meaning white skin, the name bestowed on him by his foster mother Kala, the great she-ape. 401pp.. First Edition, First Issue. Maroon Cloth. General Moderate Cover Wear/Facsimile Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015220
- Title
- TARZAN OF THE APES
- Author
- BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Moderate Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Issue
- Publisher
- A.C. McClurg
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Tarzan, Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Tarzan Consignment;
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
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Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
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- Facsimile
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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