NMLP P-038624 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Return of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs · A. C. McClurg & Co. (Chicago) · 1915
US original; the McClurg (Chicago) 1915 is the true first edition in book form — the census claim is confirmed. The text was serialized in New Story Magazine, June–December 1913. The first British edition is Methuen (London) 1918 — octavo, blue cloth boards lettered in black with a device, 246 pages plus advertisements — confirming the census claim of Methuen 1918. The Methuen is a later, secondary edition; McClurg carries precedence, though the Methuen is collected in its own right. Methuen's Tarzan jackets used Walpole Champneys cover art through the first seventeen editions to March 1932.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038624 for "The Return of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038624, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).