Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
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, spine uniformly faded with gilt imprint rubbed at foot, few superficial scratches; internally clean. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914
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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). Remarkably clean copy. Peter Parley to Penrod p.134; Zeuschner 696; Currey p. 93.