Front matter

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

ACE BOOKS, INC. 1120 Avenue of the Americas New York 36, N.Y.

This Ace edition follows the text of the first hard-cover book edition, originally published in 1933.

Cover art and title-page illustration by Frank Frazetta.

Printed in U.S.A.

THE LURE OF HIGH ADVENTURE

When Tarzan ventured northward into the remote and trackless backlands of ancient Abyssinia, it may have been only the lure of mystery that drew him—or the secrets those unmapped valleys have guarded from time immemorial.

It was in one such unknown valley that a strange white warrior in ivory armor led Tarzan to the luxurious court of the most beautiful woman in the world, to the arena and the lion pit, and to the intrigues and perils of a forgotten barbarian kingdom.

If you are bored by the humdrum of the daily grind of civilization, lay aside the badges of your servitude, don a loin cloth of lion skin, seize bow and arrows and spear, and tread the silent trails of the mysterious jungle toward high adventure with Tarzan of the Apes.

Edgar Rice Burroughs is renowned for his many novels of fantastic adventure. Unquestionably his best known creation is that of the jungle hero, Tarzan the Ape Man, but almost as well known are his stories of other planets and of Pellucidar beneath the Earth's crust.

Born in Chicago in 1875, he tried his hand at many enterprises without notable success, until at the age of thirty-five, he turned to writing. With the publication of his first novels about Tarzan and Barsoomian Mars, his career was assured. The gratitude of a multitude of readers who found in his imagination exactly the kind of escape reading they loved assured him of a well-earned fortune.

By the time of his death, in 1950, at his home in a town bearing the name of his brain child, Tarzana, California, his name was a byword in literature. Well over 40,000,000 copies of his books have appeared in 58 different languages. New printings of his famous classics are now appearing regularly in Ace Books.

ISAVAGE QUARRY

IITHE WHITE PRISONER

IIICATS BY NIGHT

IVDOWN THE FLOOD

VTHE CITY OF GOLD

VITHE MAN WHO STEPPED ON A GOD

VIINEMONE

VIIIUPON THE FIELD OF THE LIONS

IX"DEATH! DEATH!"

XIN THE PALACE OF THE QUEEN

XITHE LIONS OF CATHNE

XIITHE MAN IN THE LION PIT

XIIIASSASSIN IN THE NIGHT

XIVTHE GRAND HUNT

XVTHE PLOT THAT FAILED

XVIIN THE TEMPLE OF THOOS

XVIITHE SECRET OF THE TEMPLE

XVIIIFLAMING XARATOR

XIXTHE QUEEN'S QUARRY