Tarzan the Invincible.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.

Item Number: 136035

Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1931.

First edition, early printing of the first book in the Tarzan series published by Burroughs’ own publishing company. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrations by Studley O. Burroughs. Fine in a very bright near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.

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.