Fine Books & Manuscripts

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875–1950). Tarzan and the Lion Man. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., [1934]. 8vo. 5 black and white plates including frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Publisher’s gray decorated cloth stamped in black and red, all edges red (front endpapers lightly marred); original dust jacket with “$2.00” price on spine. FIRST EDITION (stated) of Tarzan’s encounter with a movie safari and a half–maniacal scientist’s strange city of talking gorillas. –– [Together with:] Tarzan and the Lion Man. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., [1934]. 8vo. Publisher’s gray decorated cloth stamped in black and red. FIRST EDITION (stated) married with the Grosset & Dunlap reprint dust jacket. Currey p. 92; Heins LiM–1 (T19); Zeuschner 627.