May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth; dust jacket, spine panel tanned with dampstain and chips at head and foot with some letters lost from imprint, wear to edges and folds including nicks to corners, short closed tears. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1918

Additional Details

first edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed "To Stephen Gray Best / with best wishes / Edgar Rice Burroughs / Tarzana California / Jan 6 1939." First printing with "Published, April, 1918" and W. F. Hall on the copyright page. A scarce signed Burroughs title in the dust jacket. Heins T61; Zeuschner 598.