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Virt. Unfolded Jacket - Tarzan & Forbidden City

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Virt. Unfolded Jacket - Tarzan & Forbidden City
<B>Virtually Unfolded Original Dust Jacket for Edgar Rice Burroughs' <I>Tarzan and the Forbidden City</B></I>.</B></I> The dust jacket presented here was illustrated by Burroughs' son John Coleman Burroughs. Interestingly, the model for the damsel in distress on the front panel was John Coleman Burroughs' wife, Jane Ralston. The jacket measures approximately 19.5" x 7.75", and was meant to accompany the 1938 first edition of <I>Tarzan and the Forbidden City.</B></I> The story had been serialized earlier that same year in <I>Argosy Weekly</B></I> as <I>The Red Star of Tarzan.</B></I> The jacket is mint and unfolded but for a single left spine fold, probably folded for storage by a previous owner.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Miscellaneous Collectibles, Smal (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)