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Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a book in 1914.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of The Apes 1914 1st Edition in Dust Jacket. Sold for nearly $80,000.
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