Tarzan

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ID 602506
Lot 188 | Tarzan
Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1914.

First edition, in the first binding, with "A.C. McClurg" set in one line in spine imprint, no acorn device, and the first printing (or state), with "W.F. Hall Printing Co. / Chicago" in gothic type on copyright page. The first of the Tarzan novels, the story first appeared in the pulp magazine The All-Story, vol. XXIV, no. 2 (October 1912). Currey, p. 93.

Octavo. Original red cloth (spine a little dull with small scratch), pictorial dust jacket (spine panel toned with some chipping at ends, folds starting, crease to lower corner of front panel). Provenance: C.S. Johann (Maryland, blindstamp).
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