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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