Today's used bookstore find. I've never read these. These are Ballantine Books paperbacks first printed in '63, 13th-16th US printings from '80-'81, which means they were continuously in print for at least 17 years, including the formative years of D&D. #AppendixN
Those are pretty close to the versions I grew up with, although ours were little hardbacks with that logo and art.
ReplyDeleteThat’s Neil Adams, iirc. I had those three and three more in one of those box sets when I was around 12.
ReplyDeleteA bookstore near me has almost all of the ERB Tarzan’s, even some originals. They have a fantastic collection, even some early editions of Moorcock
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ReplyDeleteI read a few of those many moons ago, same versions. Fun little reads
ReplyDeleteMy first 3 Tarzan books were the Ballantine black-spines circa 1980.
ReplyDeleteNice score dude, was there only 3?
I read the first two Tarzan novels for free via Project Gutenberg @ gutenberg.org - Books: tarzan (sorted by popularity) and only read them in the past year or so!
ReplyDelete“Tarzan at the Earth’s Core” #13, is both the best Tarzan and the best Pellucidar novel, not to mention the bearer of the greatest title of all time.
ReplyDeleteRich McKee Yes Books in Portland Maine
ReplyDeleteCool I lived in OOB ME in the late 90s. Fun beach party town. Worked in S Portland. Don't recall that bookstore
ReplyDeleteRobert Fairbanks They had one other #5 but I thought that I maybe had it already
ReplyDeleteScott Mob I was there once before 8 years ago. It is very close to the Portland Art Museum. It's the usual small cramped shelves-overflowing used bookstore. Scifi/Fantasy section was nothing special, more hardbacks of more recent vintage than the old paperbacks I love.
ReplyDeleteMichael Gibbons I read much of Pellucidar in high school, so I may have read that one though can't quite recall. If only he had also done a Tarzan on Barsoom...!
ReplyDeleteMichael Gibbons I agree, although I've not read Tarzan and the Lost City of Opar, which was Dad's favorite.
ReplyDeleteSuch a great series. I have my Dad's copies and have read them all about 5 times since I was 12.
ReplyDeleteNot too shabby! A while back I scored several Pellucidar novels, as well as Venus and Moon noveles, at a Port Richmond Books here in Philly.https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/OPHMBw4hB36VtJFTX-aW5NhStnbiXzMZlk92HAm_PgUXdNDWLRieYT2b70NTYjLo8FdeJi02oOxg0O1iKGSLow2cqbYWd2JHgGU=s0
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