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Lot 63

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875–1950). Tarzan and the Lost Empi...

Estimate: $300 - $500

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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875?1950).?Tarzan and the Lost Empire.?New York: Metropolitan Books, [1929]. 8vo. Frontispiece by A. W. Sperry. Original orange cloth, front board and spine lettered in black (minor rubbing, soiling to binding, text toned, with light occasional foxing, numeric inkstamp on rear free endpaper); original dust jacket (price?clipped, some edgewear, light soiling, chipping, a few tears to jacket, some toning to flaps). FIRST EDITION, IN FIRST ISSUE JACKET (with ?salvery? instead of ?slavery? on front jacket flap). Currey, p. 92; Zeuschner pp. 385?386.