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TARZAN THE UNTAMED ..
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Top of page edges dust soiled, touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small repaired tear to cloth (13 mm) at
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. First edition, first printing. Top of page edges dust soiled, touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small repaired tear to cloth (13 mm) at head of spine, a very good copy. No dust jacket. (19955). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-428, nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. Tarzan fights with the British against the Germans in Africa during World War I. The lost city of Xuja, inhabited by a race of people so ingrown that they are all mad, is found in North Africa. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 322. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 127. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02335. Heins TU-1.
Synopsis
Tarzan the Untamed is a book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was originally published as two separate stories serialized in different pulp magazines; "Tarzan the Untamed" in Redbook from March to August, 1919, and "Tarzan and the Valley of Luna" in All-Story Weekly from March to April 1920. The two stories were combined under the title of the first in the first book edition, published in 1920 by A. C. McClurg.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19955
- Title
- TARZAN THE UNTAMED ..
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used - Top of page edges dust soiled, touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small repaired tear to cloth (13 mm) at
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. C. McClurg & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Adventure Fiction . Fantasy . SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
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