Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Tarzan and the Ant Men" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1924 first edition. Book in good condition. 8vo. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John based on his wraparound dust jacket illustration. Original full brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark brown (spine a bit rubbed and creased, minor rubbing to binding, text a bit toned); original dust jacket (jacket about 2mm shorter than the book, spine a bit sunned, minor rubbing to jacket). First edition and the personal copy of Hulbert Burroughs (19091991), Edgars second child (and illustrator of some of his books). Hulbert has inscribed the verso of the dust jacket: "Hulbert Burroughs [in stylized block letters] Tarzana Ranch Reseda California April 23, 1925. Descendent of the mother of Constantine the Great and King Alfred the Great of England." A handsome copy with an excellent association. Currey, p. 92; Zeuschner p. 325.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands