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This
single page item is a reproduction of the first page of Edgar
Rice Burroughs’s classic story, Tarzan of the Apes. It
makes for a terrific piece to frame and decorate a study or
bedroom!
The
page is standard 8.5" x 11" in size and has been
hand antiqued via our own unique paper aging process to achieve
a look you won’t find anywhere else.
The
actual page contains the following text (though please note
that the formatting and font will be different as viewed on
this page – see photo for exact formatting and look!):
Tarzan
of the Apes
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chapter
I – Out to Sea
I
had this story from one who had no business to tell it to
me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence
of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it,
and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed
for the balance of the strange tale.
When
my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much,
and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed
the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed
written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry
official records of the British Colonial Office to support
many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I
do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings
which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it
to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters
quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief
that it MAY be true.
The
yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and
the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with
the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the
story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several
various agencies.
If
you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with
me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.
From
the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man’s
diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom
we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was
Our
antiqued paper is delicately laced with a subtle hint of gold
in the creases creating an almost magical look. (Although
it’s difficult to catch with a camera, you can see in
the image below how the shimmering is caught in the light)
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