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    If you mean EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: MASTER OF ADVENTURE, it was
    by Richard Lupoff, not Philip Jos� Farmer.
    
    --- jerry

    Philip Jose' Farmer incidently is a big fan of Burroughs.  I remember
    reading in one of his books that he had his entire collection in the
    garage and I believe a fire destroyed them.  Farmer also wrote a
    book titled "Tarzan Alive", in which he narrates an actual confrontation
    with Tarzan himself.  He states that Edgar Rice Burroughs actually
    wrote about a true character.  The man (Tarzan) according to Farmer
    looked only 30 years old and was in great physical shape for a man of
    actually 80 years of age.  I read this book as a young teenager and
    he had me going there, but I just kept remembering I picked this book
    up in the Science Fiction aisle.
    
    Mike_L

    re PJF & ERB:
    
    Farmer also wrote "Lord Tyger" about a "real" Tarzan that a wealthy
    Englishman is trying to breed in the jungle.
    
    And then there was the book describing the "meeting" of Doc Savage
    and Tarzan (_A_Feast_Unknown_ [?]). The meeting actually being a
    duel to the death, arranged by a group of immortals. The winner
    would himself be admitted to their ranks.             
    
                                                   
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    Re .3:
    
    1) _A Feast Unknown_ was an extremely sexually explicit book that
    included numerous matings, only one of which was "normal."  It was
    printed semi-underground, and is an interesting, but not particularly
    pleasant read.  It had two colateral sequels: _The Mad Goblin_,
    which was the further adventures of the Doc Savage character; and
    _Lord of the Trees, which was the further adventures of the Tarzan
    character (neither was called by the name of the character they
    represented): both ended with the same battle at the same place;
    neither had further sexual intervals.
    
    2) Farmer also wrote a pastiche, _The Adventure of the Peerless
    Peer_, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson met Tarzan during World
    War I, while on a mission from the Brisish government.  Other
    characters who made cameos in the book are G-8 (an aviator) and
    The Shadow, both of which appeared as pulp-magazine characters,
    particularly in the 1930s.  Quite entertaining.  In this book, Holmes
    and Watson are referred to by their names, and Tarzan is (correctly)
    Lord Greystroke.
    
    3) _Tarzan Alive_, the "biography" of Tarzan, and _Doc Savage: His
    Apocalyptic Life_, the "biography" of Clark Savage, Jr., both appeared
    first in hardcover, then in paperback.  
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    
    	I stand corrected.  The book I have I believe is the Lupoff
    	one rather than the Farmer.. Sorry, I wrote that from memory
    	before checking my shelf.  
    
    	The Farmer books, "Mad Goblin" and "Lord of the Trees" were
    	published together in a single paperback which I read. I don't know
    	if I still have that or "Feast" which was really pretty sick.
    	I'm amazed at some of the stuff Farmer has done which is close
    	to pornographic in nature!! But that's a topic for another note,
    	eh?

    I have a first edition of Tarzan of the Apes. It's not a collectible,
    but it might be for my great grand-children. 

    re:.6
    
    When you say that it's "not a collectible", do you mean that
    it's not in collectible condition? A first edition of TARZAN
    OF THE APES is *very* collectible unless it's literally falling
    apart (or is an "ex libris" copy that's been rebound).
    
    By the way, the book that Steve refers to, THE ADVENTURE OF
    THE PEERLESS PEER was yanked out of circulation after it
    appeared in paperback because the Burroughs estate complained
    about it (they hadn't given permission for Tarzan to be
    used, and he's not a public domain character yet). I don't
    know if they even knew about the earlier hardcover, since it
    was from a rather obscure publisher, Aspen Press). The paper-
    back is quite a collectible item and the hardcover is *very*
    collectible. Fortunately, I have both.
    	A revised version (changing the Tarzan character sufficiently
    to appease the Burroughs estate) appeared under a slightly
    different title (which I can't think of at the moment) in a
    recent Farmer book, THE GRAND ADVENTURE.
    
    --- jerry