Posts Tagged ‘Tarzan’

Library Addition: Joe R. Lansdale’s Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Here’s a book that might drive many a Lansdale completist crazy.

Lansdale, Joe R. Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot. TimeShifter Press, 2018. First edition chapbook original, #22 of 75 numbered copies signed by the book designer and cover illustrator (but not Lansdale), a Fine copy. Published for an annual gathering of “the Edgar Rice Burroughs Clan of Friendship.” Tarzan/Land that Time Forgot crossover. With Zeppelins! Isajanko, The World Lansdalean, pages 298-299 (for two previous publications in books, but not this chapbook). Bought from an online book dealer for $25.

Library Addition: Signed First of Philip Jose Farmer’s Tarzan Alive

Tuesday, May 31st, 2022

Here’s a case of replacing an unsigned copy with a signed copy:

Farmer, Philip Jose. Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke. Doubleday, 1972. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with bumping at head, heel and top front corner, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with several small closed tears (and associated creases) at heel, slight dust soiling to white portions of dust jacket, and a few other touches of wear, inscribed by Farmer: “To Mitchell Haneson/from/Philip Jose Farmer/Oct 21,/1989/Chicago.” Fictional biography of Tarzan, and a central text in Farmer’s “Wold Newton Universe,” which ties a vast array of fictional heroes, from Sherlock Holmes to Doc Savage, into one extended family. Brizzi, Philip Jose Farmer, page 72. Currey, page 185. Bought off eBay for $39.99. Replaces an unsigned copy.