Lot 22 of 427:
Tarzan of the Apes First Edition  

Click image to enlarge
Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$840
Estimate:
$1,000 - $1,500

Title:
Tarzan of the Apes

Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Place:
Chicago

Publisher:
A.C. McClurg & Co.

Date:
1914

Description:
Title-page illustration by Fred J. Arting. Red cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. First Edition, First Printing. Burroughs' first book, and the first volume in his signature series, in which Tarzan, the son of an English nobleman, is raised in the jungle by a she-ape, falls in love with Jane Porter, and journeys to America to find her. This is 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" on copyright page set in two lines of Old English type. Heins gives the binding with the acorn device on the spine priority, but investigations since he wrote his bibliography reveal that not to be the case. Heins TA-2; Zeuschner 696; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 134.

Lot Amendments

Condition:
Light wear to cloth, small hole along front spine edge, endpapers replaced; very good.


 
Item number:
227431
Shipping info:
Terms and conditions

CONTRACTS

All accepted bids are contracts and are considered final and non withdrawable.

BUYER'S PREMIUM

A buyer's premium of 20% will be applied to all purchases.

ONLINE BIDDING

The person posting the bids online has to be the person who has registered for the auction.