Tarzan and the Lost Empire

Good book, missing dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards, with black letters on front and spine. Slight soiling to front board - looks like small ink smudges. Plain end papers, pages are clean and unmarked, green top edge. Frontispiece on glossy paper. No listing of titles at end of book: instead an advertisement directing the reader to the dust jacket. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover, missing dust jacket. 1931 edition, printing not stated. 313 pages, frontispiece by A. W. Sperry. 8vo (5.25" x 7.5") Reprint of 1929 first edition, published by Metropolitan Books. 12th in Tarzan series, preceded by Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; and followed by Tarzan at the Earth's Core. Tarzan and the Lost Empire was first published as a serial in Blue Book Magazine from October 1928 through February 1929; it first appeared in book form in a hardcover edition from Metropolitan Books in September 1929. Tarzan and a young German find a lost remnant of the Roman Empire hidden in the mountains of Africa. This novel is notable for the introduction of Nkima, who serves as Tarzan's monkey companion in it and a number of later Tarzan stories. It also reintroduces Muviro, first seen in Tarzan and the Golden Lion, as sub-chief of Tarzan's Waziri warriors.…