BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.

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Tarzan of The Apes. First edition in book form, first issue, of the first Tarzan story, introducing a global icon of literature and popular culture. "In Shanghai, Bombay, and Egypt, Tarzan broke the record of all the movies released by RKO in its history". It was estimated in 1963 that "one out of every thirty paperbacks sold [in America] was a Tarzan novel" (see Abate & Wannamaker, pp. 1-3).The tale was printed in the magazine The All-Story in October 1912 and then published as a novel in this edition in June 1914. The rapid bestseller was first adapted for film in 1918. Tarzan soon grew into a book series of over two dozen novels and a multimedia franchise, inspiring over a century of adaptations across film, radio, comic strips, and games.

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