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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875–1950). Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1914.
8vo. Original red cloth, front board double–ruled in blind, front board and spine lettered in gilt (spine sunned and worn, boards edgeworn and soiled, corners bumped, front endleaves with dampstaining at edges, text toned, rear hinge starting).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE without the acorn device on spine and “W.F. Hall Printing Co. Chicago” in Old English script on copyright. The first in the Tarzan series and Burroughs’ first story in hardcover format. Currey, p. 92; Heins TA–2; Zeuschner pp. 424–425.