For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer.

For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. An excellent and attractive copy of a scarce first edition. Rear inner paper hinge expertly reinforced. First state, without publisher’s gold acorn device to spine. “Considering that Burroughs’ titles have been published in more than 30 languages and given the broad circulation of his stories in magazines and comics, there can be little question that he was the most widely read American author of the first half of the 20th century” (Taliaferro, 13-14). Burroughs has told it so well, and has so succeeded in carrying his readers with him, that there are few who will not look forward eagerly to the promised sequel” ( New York Times). A contemporary review stated: “With adventures and perils the book is replete, nor is a strange love story wanting… Crowded with impossibilities as the tale is, Mr. This is the first appearance of the Lord of the Jungle in hardback” (Zeuschner 696). “ Tarzan of the Apes is the third story Burroughs wrote, but is the first hardback book Burroughs published.

I did not think it was a very good story and I doubted if it would sell.” Of course, it not only sold-it first appeared, complete, in the October 1912 issue of All-Story-but also inaugurated a series of fantastic adventure tales that “exceeded the wildest dream of author and editors alike and triggered a phenomenon unprecedented in publishing history” (Taliaferro, 13). Long after his most famous character became an icon in the reading and movie-going publics’ imaginations, Burroughs recalled, “I wrote Tarzan of the Apes evenings and holidays… in longhand on the backs of old letterheads and odd pieces of paper. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt.įirst edition, first state of the first Tarzan book, “a landmark in popular fiction” (Fantasy and Horror 5-47), with illustrated title page. “THE YOUNG LORD GREYSTOKE BEAT UPON HIS MIGHTY BREAST AND SCREAMED OUT ONCE MORE HIS SHRILL CRY OF DEFIANCE”: FIRST EDITION OF TARZAN OF THE APESīURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.

Tarzan of the apes first edition 1914