The Return of Tarzan

A. L. Burt held a contract to reprint the first five Tarzan books and issued The Return of Tarzan from 1916, with annual reprint editions through 1919; Grosset & Dunlap reprints followed. Reprints carry the reprint publisher's imprint at the foot of the spine and on the title page in place of McClurg and typically advertise other Burt or G&D titles; the McClurg copyright statement "Published, March, 1915" is absent. Printings across all publishers total roughly 570,000 copies against a 15,000-copy first, so an unexamined copy is far more likely to be a reprint than a first.