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Tarzan and His Mate, the 1934 Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, & Jack Conway romantic action jungle adventure fantasy thriller ("Johnny Weissmuller is back again!"; "It's new!"; "Based upon the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs") starring Johnny Weissmuller (in the title role as Tarzan), Maureen O'Sullivan (as Jane), Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh (billed as "Paul Cavanaugh"), Forrester Harvey, and Ray Corrigan (as an uncredited gorilla!). Note that many feel that this movie is superior to the first movie in the series, 1932's "Tarzan the Ape Man", because that movie contained a huge amount of introductory material and focused on characters other than Tarzan and Jane. This movie focuses almost exclusively on Tarzan and Jane. Also, there is a famous nude swimming scene with Jane but it was not actually Maureen O'Sullivan. She was apparently fine with the nudity but suffered from claustrophobia and couldn't bear to put her face under water, and so she was doubled by Olympic gold medal winner Josephine McKim. Interestingly, there were three versions of this scene, one with her traditional costume, one topless, and one completely nude. This was done so that individual U.S. states could select the version to be shown, but the entire scene was eventually removed due to protests from conservative religious groups (the nude version has been restored to modern releases of the film). Also note that Crash Corrigan made a REALLY wise investment in the 1930s, when he bought a "gorilla suit". In many of the movies in the 1940s where there is a fake gorilla, it is played by Crash Corrigan, no doubt because he could supply the suit!
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Artist: J. Allen St. John

Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this hardcover book! This is REALLY unusual! After the 1934 sequel to Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan and His Mate, was released and was super successful, someone at Grosset and Dunlap had the idea of reissuing several of the earlier Tarzan books (using the English A.C. McClurg & Co. J. Allen St. John cover art), and the books have Grosset & Dunlap on the spine and back cover, and lists of G&D movie editions on the inside of the dust jacket, and they added a 4" x 17" paper wraparound band that was placed on top of the entire dust jacket that is an ad for the Tarzan and His Mate movie and says "READ THIS 'TARZAN' STORY", as though this book is what the movie was based on, even though that was not at all true! So what we are auctioning here is a Grosset & Dunlap edition of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, which has an added wraparound band for Tarzan and His Mate! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Because we know that the dust jacket is an important part of the value of this book, we also pictured the entire dust jacket opened up (including showing it with the wraparound band on the top of it as it is, and with the wraparound band removed, and know that the wraparound band is not attached to the dust jacket, but is loose). Between that image and our other images, you should be able to get a good sense of the overall condition of this book.

Note that this is one of an amazing collection of 30 movie edition books (and a few closely related items) that were consigned to us from a man who has collected such books for over half a century! Included are some of the most rare and desirable of these books, and all have the original dust jackets (many times such books lost their dust jackets over the years and they are far more rare with the dust jacket). This is a very rare opportunity to obtain one or more of these books, most of which we have either never auctioned before or only auctioned once before!