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Burroughs (Edgar Rice) "Tarzan of the Apes"

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pp. 241-372, headpiece illustration on first page of text, browned, tears into text area of two final leaves, repaired tears to pp.289-304, 359-362, 369-372, edges of a few leaves chipped, lacking advertisement leaves, inner hinges strengthened, recent brown morocco tooled in blind, majority of original upper pictorial paper wrapper bound at the front, marbled paper-covered slip-case, [Heins p.38], 4to, [New York and London, The Frank A. Munsey Company], 1912.

***"I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me": first edition of the first appearance of Tarzan of the Apes. The cover features a coloured image from an original by Clinton Pettee on the recto and an advertisement for Pears Soap on the verso..

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