Rear inside cover has the bookstore stamp of the famous and sadly long gone Hudsons Book Store which was a part of the Hudsons Department Store of Detroit, Michigan. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and crisp and age-toned. In the forest of the table-land a mile back from the ocean old Kerchak the Ape was on a rampage of rage among his people. Tarzan the Terrible is the one title listed on the rear DJ flap. On the front DJ flap and the title page there is the following statement: This book, while produced under wartime conditions, in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other materials, is Complete and Unabridged. The extraordinary and apparently complete (extant) revelation, from his agents point of view, of the commencement of the publishing career of Edgar Rice Burroughs, from the very beginning, May 28, 1913, more than a year before the book publication by McClurg of Tarzan of the Apes, on June 17, 1914, to the end of the relationship between ERB. Printer's name set in two lines of Old English type. was followed in 1914 by Tarzan of the Apes, the first of 25 such books about the son of an English nobleman abandoned in the African jungle during infancy and brought up by apes. This is a wartime edition and reprint of the original 1914 A.C. Minor shelf/edge wear, two small chips and two small wrinkles to original unclipped DJ with wraparound cover art of Tarzan sitting in tree with red titles - now in mylar. Burgundy cloth boards with black titles - corners sharp. Hardcover, Copyright 1914 (This is a WW2 wartime reprint-see description) Grosset & Dunlap 314 pages.
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