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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