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Heading: (Tarzan Series)
Author: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Title: Tarzan the Untamed
Place: Chicago
Publisher: McClurg
Date: 1920
Item # : 104948
Sale Number   231
Lot Number   20
Sale Name    
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Collection of Ed Gilbert
Sale Date   11/15/2001
Price realized   $ 1035
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Description:
Illus. with 9 plates by J. Allen St. John. Light green cloth lettered in dark brown, facsimile of the original color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.
Presentation copy from Burroughs to Ed Gilbert, inscribed on the front free endpaper, with a sketch: "PICTURE OF TARZAN AFTER HE HAS LEFT, Presented to Eddie Gilbert by the artist, Edgar Rice Burroughs, May 23, 1938." The sketch is of a picture frame, with nothing inside. Quite the humorist, was ERB. Tarzan attacks the Germans in Africa during WWI. This was the lengthiest Burroughs hardback novel, at 428 pages. Heins T8.1; Zeuschner 768.
Condition:
Spine somewhat faded, creased vertically, ends worn; else very good.
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