BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Beasts of Tarzan. New York: A. C. Mcclurg & Co. 1916.
8vo. Original dark green cloth with black lettering in blind featuring illustrated dust jacket ( not price clipped ); pp. [10], 336, [2], vi (ads); previous owners inscriptions on endpapers; pasted article on lower panel and endpaper from the Christian Science Moniter of an article entitled, Rembrandt, Tarzan: Each an Ideal , slight soiling on fore-edge, minimal tears to dust jacket on bottom edge and head and foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition.
The third in the famous Tarzan series, The Beasts of Tarzan follows the adventures of classic protagonist Tarzan, with this chapter of the story beginning after the birth of Tarzan and Jane's first son Jack. At the time of Burroughs death, he was rumoured to have been the writer who had secured the largest fortune from film. He had supposedly earned over $2million in royalties from the 27 Tarazan films that had been produced in his lifetime.
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