Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, Limited Edition, First Edition, Signed & Numbered #904 of 1,000 - Limited to 1000 , NEW

Burroughs, Edgar Rice; Lansdale, Joe R.

ISBN 10: 156971083X / ISBN 13: 9781569710838

Published by Dark Horse, 1996

About this Item

Hardcover, Condition: New, Mint, Signed and Numbered, #904 of 1,000 original signed limited copies published, Signed by Joe R. Lansdale and Danton Burroughs, Edgar Rice's grandson and executor of his estate, on a decorative printed special heavy stock page for signatures and Numbered copy information bound as 2nd page, Beautiful New, Unread, Mint copy, No marks or stamps, bound with deckle edge pages with white endpapers in green cloth boards with gold printing, with TARZAN - THE LOST ADVENTURE printed in gold print on front cloth board, Dust Jacket Condition: New, Mint, Hardcover sized 9.25" x 6.25", 211 pages, First Limited Edition December 1995 as stated, First printing, Full # line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 as printed on copyright page, -- This Hardcover Edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies and signed by Danton Burroughs, ERBS Grandson Executor of ER Burroughs estate, with the ERBS Original signature stamps. --- Nearly fifty years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs' final Tarzan manuscript was locked in a vault, unfinished, never to be read by anyone outside the family. It became the stuff of legend. Now, half a century later, in 1995, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure enjoyed its Dark Horse debut as a series of four pulp-magazine format books. In honor of Burroughs' first Tarzan stories, this, long-lost masterpiece was presented in the same format in which the very first Tarzan story saw print: As a pulp! Now, the story has been collected and reformatted into an illustrated prose novel, in the classic tradition of those prized Tarzan first editions. The tale- completed by famed horror writer Joe R. Lansdale - is wrapped in a dust jacket featuring painted cover art by Disney artist Dean Williams. The book is illustrated throughout by such legends as Thomas Yeates, Charles Vess, Gary Gianni, and Michael Kaluta, and includes a reproduction of Edgar Rice Burroughs' personal bookplate, designed by Burroughs' nephew, Studley O. Burrou, A must have for any serious Tarzan or Edgar Rice Burroughs or Rare Hardcover collector / enthusiast. Additional images available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, Limited Edition, First Edition, Signed & Numbered #904 of 1,000 - Limited to 1000 , NEW
• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156971083X
• ISBN 13: 9781569710838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Special Edition
  • Signed by Author
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

For nearly half a century, Edgar Rice Burroughs' final work, an unfinished Tarzan novel, was locked in a vault where it became the stuff of legend. In 1995, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure enjoyed its Dark Horse debut as a series of four pulp-magazine format books. Now, one year later, the story has been collected and reformatted into an illustrated prose novel, in the classic tradition of those prized Tarzan first editions. The tale -- completed by famed horror writer Joe R. Lansdale -- is wrapped in a dust jacket featuring painted art by Disney artist Dean Williams. The book is illustrated throughout by such legends as Thomas Yeates, Charles Vess, Gary Gianni, and Michael Kaluta, and includes a reproduction of Edgar Rice Burroughs' personal bookplate, designed by Burroughs' nephew, Studley O. Burroughs.

Reviews

The Ape Man rampages through the African jungle once again in a brawny, brutal adventure that Burroughs (1875- 1950) left unfinished at his death. It was recently completed by Lansdale in a series of paperbacks (1995), which have now been combined into this hardcover. Johnny Weismuller and those familiar with Tarzan only through film and TV may blanch at this noble beast who drinks hot blood from his bare-handed kills and slays foes with abandon and near superhuman skill. But this Tarzan is in the dark spirit of the Burroughs novels, and he's revived with pulpish glee by Lansdale, a smart choice whose own fiction (The Two-Bear Mambo, 1995) acknowledges the ferocity of life. Here, Tarzan, aided by Jad-bal-ja the lion and Nkima the chimp, defends a party of American archeologists in search of the Lost City of Ur. He combats brigands who would plunder the party and the jungle, the savage inhabitants of Ur and, finally, a mantis-like monster from the earth's core-a reminder that Burroughs's Tarzan novels were as much science fiction as jungle adventure. It's a fierce tale, told in rough prose, but readers who pant, for instance, at the sight of Tarzan slashing through a band of apes who have kidnapped a young blonde as their "slave" will thrill to this yarn.
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