Jungle Tales of Tarzan

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1955. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked (but for a small spot on front endpaper). No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean, crisp, and creamy white. The colorful dust jacket (protected by a removable mylar sleeve) is bright, but has several small edge chips reinforced with clear-tape. Bound in the original, pictorial tan boards, decorated in brown on the front cover and spine. Sharp corners. The full-color dust jacket art is unsigned, but according to Zeuschner is by C. Edmund Monroe, Jr. Cover art, and endpaper maps of Africa are by Rafael Palacios. There are 12 interior b/w illustrations by J. Allen St. John. First published in 1950 at $1.00, this printing was issued in 1955 at $1.25. There was also a 1958 impression, but it lacks the endpaper maps by Palacios. Heins JT-8. Zeuschner 223. From the dust jacket: "Reared in the heart of the jungle, Tarzan, the foster-child of the ape tribe of Kerchak, fights his way by the power of brain and muscle to the highest rank among the apes. Again and again the ape-man hero faces overwhelming odds in his fight for right and justice." . Reprint of the 1950 original. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by St. John, J. Allen; & C. Edmund Monroe; Rafael Palacios. 8vo. (vi), 319pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…