11) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1928)

Tarzan finds an outpost of European knights and crusaders from a "forbidden valley" hidden in the mountains. His lion ally Jad-bal-ja puts in an appearance late in the book. Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle marks an important transition in the plot-type presented in the Tarzan series, presaged by the earlier Tarzan the Untamed. Previous novels dealt primarily with the ape-man's own affairs and family; beginning with this novel, he becomes an apparently rootless adventurer serving as a savior and enabler of a cast of secondary characters which changes in each book. While a few previously established and new characters continue to appear, notably the lion Jad-bal-Ja, the monkey Nkima, and Muviro, sub-chief of Tarzan's Waziri tribe, along with his warriors, most formerly major characters are dropped aside from an occasional token appearance. The novel also continues the trend, first seen in The Return of Tarzan and established definitively in Tarzan the Untamed, of taking Tarzan to a new lost civilization or tribe in almost every book.

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Written May to July 1927

First published by: «Blue Book Magazine»: 1927 December ~ 1928 January – May. J. Allen St. John: Jan. 1928 cover (first for ERB) ~ Dec. 1927 cover artist unknown. Frank Hoban: Many interiors.

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg & Co.: September 15, 1928 ~ (377 pages 7,500 copies 1st Ed.) ~ Total: 122,777. J. Allen St. John: cover, title page and five interior sepia plates. Edgar Rice Burroughs: Map art of the Valley of the Sepulcher

We followed the Grosset & Dunlap 1929 edition with the addition of one extra illustrations by Neal Adams.

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10) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924)

Tarzan, the king of the jungle, enters an isolated country called Minuni, inhabited by a people four times smaller than himself. The Minunians live in magnificent city-states which frequently wage war against each other. Tarzan befriends the king, Adendrohahkis, and the prince, Komodoflorensal, of one such city-state, called Trohanadalmakus, and joins them in war against the onslaught of the army of Veltopismakus, their warlike neighbours. Tarzan is captured on the battle-ground and taken prisoner by the Veltopismakusians. The Veltopismakusian scientist Zoanthrohago conducts an experiment reducing Tarzan to the size of a Minunian, and the ape-man is imprisoned and enslaved among other Trohanadalmakusian prisoners of war. He meets, though, Komodoflorensal in the dungeons of Veltopismakus, and together they are able to make a daring escape.

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ERB commenced writing June 20, 1923 ~ finished November 22, 1923

First published by Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1924; February 2, 9, 16, 23 ~ March 1, 8, 15. Cover by Stockton Mulford ~ One interior illustration per issue by Roger B. Morrison.

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg & Co, September 30, 1924 ~ 346 pages ~ 1st Ed. Print Run: 10,000 ~ Total: 187,500. J. Allen St. John: wrap-around cover and frontispiece version of cover in sepia. Contains "How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales".

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1924 with the addition of two extra illustrations by Neal Adams and Frank Frazetta.

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9) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923)

In the previous novel - Tarzan the Terrible - Tarzan rescued Jane after he discovered that she was alive, and was reunited with his son Korak. In this story he and his family encounter and adopt an orphaned lion cub, whom they name Jad-bal-ja ("The Golden Lion" in the language of the lost land of Pal-ul-don, which they have recently left). They then return to their African estate, gutted by the Germans during the course of World War I in Tarzan the Untamed. They find it already being rebuilt by Tarzan's faithful Waziri warriors, including old Muviro, who first appears in this novel after a previous mention in Tarzan the Untamed. Muviro reappears in a number of later novels as sub-chief of the Waziri. Back at home, Tarzan raises Jad-bal-ja, who in adulthood is a magnificent black-maned golden lion devoted to the Ape Man. Later Tarzan is drugged and delivered to the priests of Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis that he had last visited in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Once again La, the High Priestess of the Flaming God, who is consumed by her hopeless infatuation with Tarzan, rescues him. But when her people discover that she had betrayed them, she flees with Tarzan into the legendary Valley of Diamonds, where savage gorillas rule. The good news is that Tarzan and La are followed by the faithful Jad-bal-ja. The bad news is that they are also being trailed by Esteban Miranda, who happens to look exactly like Tarzan, who hopes to locate and loot Opar.

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Written between February and May 1922.

First published by Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1922, December 9, 16, 23, 30; 1923, January 6, 13, 20. Art by P.J. Monahan: December 9 cover ~ Stout: one b/w interior in each instalment.

First Book Edition: McClurg, March 24, 1923; 333 pages. 1st Ed. Print Run: 25,000 ~ Total: 228,500. Art: J. Allen St. John: cover and eight interior plates

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1923 with the addition of one extra illustration by Roy Krenkel.

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8) Tarzan the Terrible (1921)

In the previous novel - Tarzan the Untamed - during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel. Jane is also being held captive in Pal-ul-don, having been brought there by her German captor, who has since become dependent on her due to his own lack of jungle survival skills. She becomes a pawn in a religious power struggle that consumes much of the novel. With the aid of his native allies, Tarzan continues to pursue his beloved to rescue her and set things to right, going through an extended series of fights and escapes to do so. In the end success seems beyond even his ability to achieve, until in the final chapter he and Jane are saved by their son Korak, who has been searching for Tarzan just as Tarzan has been searching for Jane.

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ERB commenced writing this in August 1920.

First published by Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1921: February 12, 19, 26; March 5, 12, 19, 26. P.J. Monahan: cover ~ no interiors.

First Book Edition: A.C. McClurg: June 20, 1921. 408 pages ~ 1st Ed. Print Run: 45,000 copies. Total: 262,500. J. Allen St. John: cover and nine interior sepia plates. Edgar Rice Burroughs: map of Pal-ul-don and glossary.

We followed here the McClurg First Edition of 1921 with the addition of one extra illustration by Boris Vallejo.

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7) Tarzan the Untamed (1920)

Tarzan the Untamed is the seventh book in the Tarzan series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally published as two separate stories serialized in different pulp magazines; "Tarzan the Untamed" (AKA "Tarzan and the Huns") in Redbook from March to August, 1919, and "Tarzan and the Valley of Luna" in All-Story Weekly from March to April 1920. The two stories were combined under the title of the first in the first book edition, published in 1920 by A. C. McClurg. In order of writing, the book follows Jungle Tales of Tarzan, a collection of short stories about the ape-man's youth. Chronologically, it follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.

Tarzan faced his worst attack--an attack against his wife and child. With the speed of the great apes, Tarzan rushed through the jungle toward his home and family--only to find that the marauders had been there before him. His farm was in shambles and no one was left alive. Of his beloved wife there was only a charred, blackened corpse, still wearing the rings he had given her. Silently, he buried the body and swore his terrible vengeance against those who had done this terrible deed. Then he set out grimly to track them ... through warring armies...across a vast desert that no man had ever crossed...and to a strange valley where only madmen lived. 

 

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ERB commenced writing this in September 1918. Working title: Tarzan and the Huns.
First published by Red Book Magazine: 1919 March through August ~ Tarzan the Untamed. Art: Charles Livingston Bull: 25 b/w illustrations
All-Story Weekly: 1920 March 20, 27 ~ April 3, 10, 17 ~ Tarzan and the Valley of Luna. Art: P.J. Monahan: March 20 cover ~ no interiors.

First Book Edition: A.C. McClurg: April 30, 1920; 428 pages. 1st. Ed. Print Run: 77,000 copies. Total: 299,500 copies. Art: J. Allen St. John: cover and nine interior sepia plates.

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1920 with the addition of one extra illustration by Boris Vallejo.

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6) Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)

The young Tarzan was unlike the great apes who were his only companions and playmates. Theirs was a simple, savage life, filled with little but killing or being killed. But Tarzan had all of a normal boy's desire to learn. He had painfully taught himself to read from books left by his dead father. Now he sought to apply this book knowledge to the world around him. He sought for such things as the source of dreams and the whereabouts of God. And he searched for the love and affection that every human being needs. But he was alone in his struggles to grow and understand. The life of the jungle had no room for abstractions.

The book is divided into 12 chapters each containing a separate story. The illustrations of the great J. Allen St. John are among his best artistic creations.

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First published by Blue Book Magazine: September 1916 through August 1917. Herbert Morton Stoops: one b/w illustration for each instalment.

First Book Edition: A.C. McClurg: March 29, 1919; 319 pages. Art: J. Allen St. John: cover, five sepia plates and 12 interior b/w illustrations.

We followed the McClurg First Edition of 1919 with the addition of one extra illustration by Dave Bader.

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5) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1918)

In the previous novel -The Son of Tarzan- Tarzan and Jane's son, Jack Clayton, a.k.a. Korak, had come into his own. In this novel Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located, in order to make good on some financial reverses he has recently suffered. While Atlantis itself sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar continued to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stockpile but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan knows its secret location. A greedy, outlawed Belgian army officer in the employ of a criminal Arab secretly follows Tarzan to Opar. There, John Clayton loses his memory after being struck on the head by a falling rock in the treasure room during an earthquake. On encountering La, the high priestess who is the servant of the Flaming god of Opar, and who is also very beautiful, Tarzan once again rejects her love which enrages her and she tries to have Tarzan killed; she had fallen in love with the ape man during their first encounter and La and her high priests are not going to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives this time. In the meanwhile, Jane has been kidnapped by the Arab and wonders what is keeping her husband from once again coming to her rescue. A now amnesiac Tarzan and the Belgian escape from Opar, bearing away the sacrificial knife of Opar which La and some retainers set out to recover. There is intrigue and counter intrigue the rest of the way.

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The fifth book in the series.
Written by ERB between September and October 1915 .

Originally published in the All-Story Weekly magazine as a five part serial from November to December 1916.

First Book Edition: A.C. McClurg in April 1918. J. Allen St. John made the cover and eight coated halftone sepia plates.
We followed this first McClurg edition.

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4) The Son of Tarzan (1917)

Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with the ape-man in The Beasts of Tarzan and wants to even the score. He lures Jack, Tarzan's son, away from London and into his clutches, but the youngster escapes with the help of the ape named Akut.
The pair then flees into the deep African jungle where two decades earlier Tarzan himself had been raised. Jack Clayton, now on his own, becomes known as Korak the Killer and builds a reputation for himself in the jungle. Like his father before him, he finds his own place among the great apes, and also like his father, meets and rescues a beautiful young woman, Meriem, the daughter of a Captain in the French Foreign Legion, who was also a Prince (Prince de Cadrenet), named Armand Jacot.
Arguably, the book is as much about Meriem, wife of Korak, as it is about Tarzan's son. 

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The fourth book in the series.
Originally published in the All-Story Weekly magazine as a six-part serial from December 4, 1915-January 8, 1916. 

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg in March 1917. 

Reprints:
A.C. McClurg: 1917 - second state first edition.
A.C. McClurg: 1918 - third and fourth state editions
A.L. Burt: 1918-1928 - many reprint editions΄same illustrations but just front-side DJ
Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Αll earlier St. John illustrations included.

We followed the Grosset & Dunlap, 1927 edition, which was identical to the McClurg 1917 edition, with the addition of one extra illustration by Frank Frazetta. 

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3) The Beasts of Tarzan (1916)

Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant son, Jack, is kidnapped in London by his old Russian enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch. Following an anonymous call about the whereabouts of Jack, Tarzan himself falls into Rokoff's trap and is imprisoned aboard a ship carrying Jack. Jane, fearing Tarzan was entering a trap, follows him and also finds herself in Rokoff's clutches aboard the ship. Rokoff sets sail to Africa, eventually exiling Tarzan on an island near the African coast and telling Tarzan that Jack will be left with a cannibal tribe and raised as one of their own.
Using his jungle skill and primal intelligence, Tarzan wins the help of Sheeta, the vicious panther, a tribe of great apes led by the intelligent Akut, and the native warrior Mugambi. With their aid, Tarzan reaches the mainland, kills Rokoff, and tracks down his wife and son. Paulvitch, the other villain, is presumed dead, but manages to escape into the jungle.

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The third book in the series.

 
Originally serialized in "All-Story Cavalier" magazine in 1914.

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg in 1916. J. Allen St. John made the wraparound cover, frontispiece, title page and many interior b/w line drawings.

 
First Reprint Edition: A. L. Burt: 1917. With all the artwork of the first edition.

We followed the A. L. Burt edition with the addition of one extra illustration by Frank Frazetta from the Ace Books edition of 1963.

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2) The Return of Tarzan (1915)

Tarzan had renounced the right to the woman he loved, and civilization held no pleasure for him. After a brief and harrowing period among men, he turned back to the African jungle where he had grown to manhood. It was there he first heard of Opar, the city of gold, left over from fabled Atlantis. It was a city of hideous men –and of beautiful, savage women, over whom reigned La, high priestess of the Flaming God. Its altars were stained with the blood of many sacrifices. Unheeding of the dangers, Tarzan led a band of savage warriors toward the ancient crypts and the more ancient evil of Opar. (Ballantine books summary).

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The second book in the series.

First published by the "New Story Magazine" in 1913, from June through December . N. C. Wyeth made the covers for the June and August issues.

First book edition: A. C. McClurg, March 10, 1915; 365 pages; 1st Ed. Print Run: 15,000 - Total: 570,000 copies.
Art: Cover by N. C. Wyeth (same as New Story August); J. Allen St. John made 26 interior b/w headpieces.

We followed this first edition very closely adding only one extra illustration by Thomas Grindberg.

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1) Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

Deep in the savage African jungle, the baby Tarzan was raised by a fierce she-ape of the tribe of Kerchak. There he had to learn the secrets of the wild to survive—how to talk with animals, swing through the trees, and fight against the great predators. He grew to the strength and courage of his fellow apes. And in time, his human intelligence promised him the kingship of the tribe. He became truly Lord of the Jungle. Then men entered his jungle, bringing with them the wanton savagery of civilized greed and lust—and bringing also the first white woman Tarzan had ever seen. Now suddenly, Tarzan had to choose between two worlds.

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First published by the "All-Story Magazine" in October 1912.

First Book Edition: A. C. McClurg: 1914, published in "three states", 400 pages, in 10,000 copies, with a cover made by Fred J. Arting who also did the frontispiece.

We followed this first edition with the addition of chapter head pictures from the comic strip by Hal Foster.

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