tarzan of the apes by edgar rice burroughs

One of the advantages of riding the subway to work is getting extra reading time. This edition includes a biographical afterword. This classic tale of adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs has captivated readers both young and old ever since its original publication in 1912. Tarzan becomes a skilled hunter gaining him respect amongst the apes and drawing the ire of Kerchak, setting up a final and fatal conflict between the two. Tarzan discovers his true parents’ cabin and there, in books, he learns of others like himself. As Tarzan grows up he begins to recognize that he is different from his ape peers, a realization that stirs within him feelings of alienation and drives him to discover his true heritage. When his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak and his mother dies of natural causes when he is just one year old, Clayton is adopted by the she-ape Kala and renamed Tarzan, or “white skin” in the ape language. It is the coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple, Lord and Lady Greystoke, who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. See pictures for details.First published in the pulp magazine “All-Story Magazine” in October, 1912, “Tarzan of the Apes” is the first novel in a series of adventure novels that was so popular that it would spawn some two dozen sequels. The dust jacket is Good-VG, with fading to spine, creases, closed tears, and small chips to edges. The cover has minimal soiling and wear to extremities. VERY GOOD overall condition: Tight, clean, bright copy with dust jacket having wear to the head & foot of its spine, light soil, and a 3' x 1 1/2' piece missing from its lower front corner.

Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg, (1911 - 1996) was an American artist and educator, best known for his work on the Tarzan newspaper comic strip, and his anatomy books for artists. Wells, and Rider Haggard, Burroughs elevated the pulps where he began into dynamic genres, among them adventure novels, lost worlds, Westerns, science fictions, and planetary romances. In literary step with authors like Jules Verne, H. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is best known for his creation of Tarzan of the Jungle as well as John Carter, the Mars adventurer. full-color thick and dynamic pages reproducing two Tarzan comics. Quarto (11 1/4' x 8 1/2'), light greenish pictorial cloth with green lettering on spine and front cover, Introduction by Maurice Horn, archival ylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (clipped) depicting Tarzan running with a dagger in hand followed by gorillas, gray endpapers, 32pp.

Tarzan of the apes by edgar rice burroughs