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Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1947 Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue pebbled cloth, lettered in brown; in its original pictorial dust jacket, with Burroughs' illustration of Tarzan holding a spear to the front panel, lettered in red and black. Near fine, with light rubbing to spine ends and bottom edges of boards, and a hint of staining to front free endpaper; very good unclipped dust jacket, with light rubbing and light dampstaining to front panel, and a little restoration to corners and lower front panel. Overall, a bright and attractive copy. The last new work to be published during the author's lifetime, Tarzan and "The Foreign Legion" is the twenty-second novel in Burroughs' adventure series featuring Tarzan, a semi-wild Englishman who was raised by and lives among the apes of the jungles of central Africa. In this novel, Tarzan, now a member of the R.A.F. during WWII, fights as part of the international Allied group known as "the foreign legion," where he uses his jungle training to help secure a victory against the Axis Japanese forces. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
Synopsis
Tarzan and the Foreign Legion is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The book, written June-September 1944 while Burroughs was living in Honolulu and published in 1947, was the last new work by Burroughs to be published during his life (Llana of Gathol, the tenth book in the Barsoom series, was published in 1948, but it was a collection of four stories that were originally published in Amazing Stories in 1941).
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- Bookseller
- B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ERB019
- Title
- Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century Literature; Modern Firsts; American Literature; Fiction;
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About the Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
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New York, New York
About B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Selling First Editions and Rare Books from all centuries. Specializing in 19th and 20th century literature, modern first editions, signed and inscribed books, early children's literature, and poetry.
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