BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Tarzan of the Apes. Half-title. Pictorial title-page after Fred J. Arting. 8vo, original maroon cloth, front cover ruled in blind, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, textblock leaning slightly, few stains to front cover; facsimile dust jacket; ownership inscription to front flyleaf, rear hinge cracked; slipcase. Provenance: The Forbes Collection. First edition, first issue, with no "acorn" device on the spine, and the W. F. Hall imprint in Old English on the copyright page. The story first appeared in the pulp magazine The All-Story, vol. XXIV, no. 2 (October 1912). Peter Parley to Penrod p.134; Zeuschner 696; Currey p. 93. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914