Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1924) ‘Tarzan and the Ant Men’, US signed and inscribed first edition, family association copy

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1924) ‘Tarzan and the Ant Men‘, US first edition, first printing, published by McClurg. Signed and incribed by the author to the ffep: “To Jim Pierce | Hoping your | luck holds | Edgar Rice Burroughs | March 16, 1928 | [illegible location]”

Provenance: Jim Pierce was the actor who played Tarzan in Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927). In August 1928 he married Burroughs’ daughter Joan.

Condition: The book is square and tight, with minimal edge wear to boards, spine tips lightly pushed, three pinpoint spots on spine and foreedge. Pages with just a hint of age toning otherwise unblemished and free of any marks. The dust jacket is bright and colourful, with an unfaded spine, with minor expert restoration to spine tips and folds not affecting any lettering. Near fine book in a very good, lovely dustjacket.

The tenth Tarzan novel had a print run of 10,000 copies. Hardcover, 346 numbered pages. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in darker brown on front cover and spine. Bound at the end of text there is a four unnumbered pages appendix entitled “How Burroughs wrote the Tarzan Tales” by Robert H. Davis, the All Story Weekly editor to whom Burroughs submitted his very first manuscripts in 1911. Exquisite Pictorial orange and yellow lettered dustjacket exquisite design and sepia frontispiece by John Allen St. John.