Tarzan the Invincible.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.

Item Number: 96779

Tarzana: Edgar Rice Bourroughs, Inc, 1931.

First edition of the first book in the Tarzan series published by Burroughs’ own publishing company. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Eddie Gilbert, always, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 5/27/39.” Burroughs has added a full-page drawing of Tarzan sitting in a tree looking down at a lion. The recipient, Edward Gilbert was the brother of Burroughs’ second wife, silent film actress Florence Gilbert. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. A fine association.

The noble savage Tarzan first appeared in Burroughs' 1912 story Tarzan of the Apes, published in the pulp magazine The All-Story and in book form two years later. An archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by Mangani great apes, Tarzan spawned innumerable works in literature and film, including 25 sequels and the popular Tarzan movie franchise which lasted from the 1930s to the 1960s. The fourteenth novel in the series, Tarzan the Invincible follows Tarzan, his monkey friend Nkima and his faithful Wazri warriors in their attempt to prevent Soviet communists from looting the lost city of Opar.