Illus. by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth lettered in gilt, facsimile of original color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.

Presentation copy inscribed by Burroughs to Ed Gilbert on the front free endpaper, with a sketch: "To Eddie Gilbert, with best wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, May 4, 1938, with apologies to Chick Sale." Chick Sale, a humorist of the period, had written a best-selling book of humor on building outhouses; in the sketch, a naked Tarzan, seated on a branch seen from the rear, seems to be be availing himself of nature's own outhouse. Also signed by the dedicatee, Jane Burroughs Pierce, eldest daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs, on the dedication-page. Tarzan uses animals of the jungle to search for Jane and his kidnapped son in Africa. Burroughs' third book and third in the Tarzan series. Heins T4.1; Zeuschner 43.