Tarzan Of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, first issue, signed familial presentation copy. Inscribed on front free-endpaper: "To Henry Studley Burroughs and his good wife, Ella Frances Oldham, from their low-brow brother, with a bunch of love [signed] Edgar Rice Burroughs." With a tipped-in print by Studley Oldham Burroughs (the author's nephew) depicting Tarzan and a group of apes mourning the death of an ape. The print is signed in the lower right hand corner, O S Burroughs, and is tipped on to a blank page facing page "1." The bookplate of Ella Oldham Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs' sister-in-law and Studley's mother) on front paste-down endpaper. One of the most important copies of this famous book imaginable. The book has undergone expert, loving and extensive restoration. Among other things the spine has been re-backed using the original cloth spine strip, the original endpapers and cloth binding have been retained. The gilt on book's spine is gone; the gilt on front cover is dull. The book now presents as very good, and is in a fine facsimile dust jacket..
TARZAN OF THE APES
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. TARZAN OF THE APES. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1914. 8vo., red cloth. First Edition of Burrough's first Tarzan book. Currey's binding A, red cloth with "A.C. McClurg/& Co." at base of spine. Printing (state?) B, with "W.F. Hall Printing Company, Chicago" set in one line of gothic type on copyright page. Signed presentation from Burrough's on the front endpaper: "To/ My good friend/ Donald Stralem/ with the best wishes/ Edgar Rice Burroughs/ Tarzana/ June 10, 1936." Very Good (bright). Enclosed in a custom-made, leather & marbled boards clam-shell box, with gilt-worked title on the spine. A nice copy! $17,500.00.
Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. Reprint. [viii], 392 pp. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, titled in black. Spine faded and worn, with top 1-1/2 inch section separated along front joint, front lower tip worn, wear to lower margin of pp. 119-120. Reprint. [viii], 392 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Burroughs to 'Jane'. Inscribed by Burroughs to Maureen "Jane" Farrow on the ffep, "… with all good wishes from her old friend and admirer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, California, January 31, 1938." Maureen O'Sullivan Farrow (1911-1998) played Jane alongside Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in the first six MGM Tarzan films, 1932-1942. Her first husband was the director and screenwriter John Farrow - together they had seven children, including the actress Mia Farrow. With a black and white publicity photograph (6-1/4 x 5-1/4 in.) of Burroughs visiting "Jane" and "Tarzan" (in costume) on set, the three posed in front of an elephant.
Tarzan of The Apes.
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
New York: Grosset & Dunlop,, 1914. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to front board and spine black, top edge green. Housed in a grey cloth slipcase, illustrated with reproductions of the dust jacket panels. Spine a touch faded; an excellent, bright copy. A fascinating presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, two months prior to their wedding, "To Mrs Dearholt, with kindest regards, Mr Burroughs. Tarzana. February 3, 1935", and with Florence's ownership signature to the front pastedown, below her bookplate, "Florence Gilbert Dearholt Burroughs". Florence Gilbert Dearholt (19041991) was an American silent film actress of the 1920s, who married entrepreneur Ashton Dearholt in 1926. Ashton Dearholt, a friend of Burroughs, was one of the producers and actors of the film The New Adventures of Tarzan; he and Florence divorced in 1934 after he returned from filming in Guatemala with co-star Ula Holt, and insisted that Holt be able to live in the Dearholt home. Florence married Burroughs in April the following year. This is a reprint of the first book in Burroughs's series about the titular character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October 1912, and first appeared in book form in 1914, published in Chicago by A.C. McClurg.
Tarzan of the Apes
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, first state, with printer's name set in two lines of Old English type. [viii], 401 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's crimson cloth, first state of the binding, without acorn device on spine. Slight loss to spine gilt lettering, spine ends restored, rear hinge repaired, faint stain on textblock fore-edge, a bright copy. Previous owner's name in ink on ffep. First edition, first state, with printer's name set in two lines of Old English type. [viii], 401 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first edition of the first Tarzan novel - a brighter than usual copy. The child of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were marooned in West Africa, Tarzan ("White Skin" in ape language) was adopted by the she-ape Kala after his parents pass away. Immediately popular, Rice Burroughs's hero featured in more than two dozen sequels and was further immortalised in film. Currey, p. 93; Zeuschner 696
TARZAN OF THE APES
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice
1914. BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. TARZAN OF THE APES. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. Small 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition, earliest issue. Bound in the original red cloth without the acorn device on the spine and with "A.C. McClurg & Co." in gilt at the base of the spine; with "W.F. Hall Printing Co., Chicago" set in two lines of Old English type on the copyright page. The first in a long-line of Tarzan books and the basis of numerous movies, comic books, and a television series. Enclosed in a custom-made slipcase of patterned cloth with a black-leather title label on the front cover. Very Good (covers bright with minor wear & slight dimple at the head of the spine; contents clean & tight with an occasional light smudge in text; few signatures slightly askew). Ink presentation from "Dorothy" on the front endpaper presenting the book on Nov. 18, 1914 and a long, humorous poem, also penned by Dorothy, in ink on the next blank page mimicking Shakespeare's famous speech in Hamlet: "To read or not to read..." & signed "With due apologies to the talented William." $2,500.00.
TARZAN OF THE APES
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice
Chicagol, IL: A. C. McClurg & Co.. 1914. 1st edition. hb cloth. Small 8vo, pp. 401, ads. Bound in wine-red ribbed cloth, blocked in blind and lettered in gilt to front board; with gilt spine lettering and no acorn. . The famous first apperance in book form of John Clayton, "Tarzan of the Apes". The novel was first published in the pulp magazine "All-Story Magazine" in October, 1912. The first book edition appeared on June 17, 1914, published by McClurg, with dust jacket and title-page art by Fred J. Arting. It was the third story Burroughs wrote, but the first hard cover book which was published for Burroughs. According to Zeuschner 696, "There were about 5,000 copies of the first state of the first edition printed; it is bound in dark red cloth with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. There is no acorn on the spine". "W. F. Hall Publishing Co./Chicago" appears in "Old English" type on the copyright page. Written neatly in pencil on the first free front endpaper is the following: "Ruth Casey / July 29, 1914 / Minneapolis / Minnesota" and then lower down, in pencil (but in a different hand): "Marilyn Johnson / Waseca, Minnesota". The book is in generally good condition. There is a small scrape to the cloth at the bottom of the rear board. The gilt lettering to the front board is bright, but the spine lettering is less so. The edges of the boards show minor rubbing. There are several small - quite light - spots near the bottom of the front board. The binding is bit shaken, and several signatures are beginning to stand proud but the hinges are tight. The contents are unmarked, although there is a small black mark to the extreme top edge of the title page, which is otherwise in excellent condition. This copy comes encased in a facsimile of the original dust jacket with wrap-around art. .
Tarzan of the Apes
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. First Edition, First Binding without the acorn on the spine. This is the rarest state (for many years unrecorded) where in this copy the title page is a cancel (the title page is mounted on a stub where a leaf has been removed and replaced) with the correct Chicago - A.C. McClurg 1914 imprint on the title page and the printer’s name appears in a single line in gothic type with the imprint on the copyright page. This version was unknown to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s various bibliographers over the years Heins, Zeuschner, and only revealed in 2002 in the revised and corrected version of L.W. Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction, page 75 (only issued on CD rom). Currey describes the copy he discovered as “unique”, however, in recent years, several copies of this state have turned up, making it the rarest of the several states of the book. Since the title page is a cancel replacement by the publisher it might logically follow that his variant replacing another that it is implied that an early incorrect or somehow defective title page created by the printer. A good copy with the hinges cracked, flaking of letterting to the spine, wear at the cloth extremities mainly at the bottom of spine. used and read copy of a rarity. The character of Tarzan has appeared in Burroughs’s own sequels, movies, television, comic books, a successful comic strip and spin-off products. Burroughs was the first writer of fiction to shrewdly exploit his creation in a manner which is now considered business as usual. As a matter of fact, Tarzan was the first literary character to be registered as a trademark. He created his own publishing and marketing company, E.R.B. Inc., located in Tarzana, California.
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Publisher's name at tail of spine, no acorn on spine. Book slightly cocked. Light wear to covers, corners bumped. Discolored patch on back board. Copyright page states, "Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914 - Published June, 1914 - Copyrighted in Great Britain." Pictorial title page. Previous owner's name/address written several times on endsheets. No writing or markings in the text. Pages lightly tanned. Textblock weak in a few places but all pages tight. Included is a clipping from a 1972 Charleston Evening Post with an interview with Danton Burroughs, grandson of author. Full refund if not satisfied.
TARZAN OF THE APES
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
NY: A L BURT PUBLISHERS, 1914. ATB; C-0032;GREEN BOARDS WITH BLACK LETTERING ON FRONT BOARD AND SPINE; NO DJ; CORNERS ON FRONT BOARD SLIGHTLY BUMPED; COPYRIGHT A C MC CLURG & CO; 1914; PBLISHED JUNE 1914; COPYRIGHTED IN GREAT BRITAIN; PUBLISHED BY A L BURT; NY;401 PAGES;3 ADDITIONAL PAGES AT BACK=POPULAR COPYRIGHT NOVELS BEGINNING WITH WITH ABNER DANIEL AND CONCLUDING WITH THE NET BY REX BEACH; LIGHT FOXING OF PAGES; SLIGHT TEAR(MISSING PIECE) ON FIRST INSIDE PAGE (1/2 X 1/2" ). NOT SIGNED. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by X. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.
TARZAN OF THE APES.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice.
New York:: A. L. Burt. [1915].. An early reprint edition of the author's first book. Issued from the plates of the McClurg 1914 first edition with its copyright page but with a new title page and frontis based on the original McClurg title page. Near fine with only the barest wear to green cloth boards. The cover is lettered in black and there are no lines on the cover; in dust jacket with some minor edge wear and a few chips at spine ends. A very nice copy. Robert Zeuschner calls for the Burt first printing to be lettered in white and to have embossed lines on cover--this copy doesn't but it does have ads for only Harold Bell Wright titles in the back, and the latest one advertised is a 1914 Wright title. We assume there would have been other Tarzan titles or other later Wright books advertised if this were published much later than 1914. .
TARZAN OF THE APES
Burroughs Edgar Rice
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [circa 1929]. An early reprint of the first of the Tarzan books. Illustrated with a silhouette frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in black on the upper cover and spine, in the original bright coloured pictorial dustjacket mirroring the first edition and featuring a full wraparound image of Tarzan sitting in a tree overlooking his kingdom. 392 pp. An especially fine copy, the cloth bright and nearly pristine, the jacket in excellent condition with just very minimal edge-wear. AN ESPECIALLY PLEASING COPY, UNCOMMONLY BRIGHT AND FINE. This Grosset and Dunlap issue is a very handsome early reprint of the very first of the famed Tarzan novels. The dustjacket mirrors the original first edition jacket. This novel of a British baby orphaned in the wilds of Africa and raised by apes would set the course for one of the greatest and most revered series in all of modern literature. Burroughs himself wrote 25 truly popular sequels to this, the first book of Tarzan of the Apes, and the number of works in other media are incalculable.