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Guide to Tarzan Collectibles

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As a long-time fan and collector of ERB memorabilia, I truly welcomed the book written by Mr. Erardi. I'm pretty sure that it becomes useful source of information to everyone who wants to start his/her own collection. Experienced collectors may feel a little disappointed, but for youngsters this is simply great, and written with an influential passion.

It was great to finally see a book written on Tarzan collectibles, but this one falls short. While many fine older collectibles are shown from the collections of Michael Conran and George McWhorter, it would appear that the author had very little in his own collection, and seemed to "pad" the book with pages of common collectibles. There are tons of vintage items that could have been shown that were sacrificied to show multiple pages of new trading cards, new paperbacks & new comic books. Still a nice book for a collection, though.

Schiffer produced a book on Oz memorabilia a few years ago, which was written by three major Oz collectors. Because the collectors knew their stuff, it turned out to be a fantastic reference book - very hard to top. Schiffer should have followed this same formula and consulted more long-time collectors to write a book on Tarzan collectibles.

I enjoyed it very much reading the sories of Tarzan when I was a boy. The first time I saw a movie on the big screen was Tarzan and the leopard woman. I would like to buy one book I read of Tarzan, where there was a dictionary of the language that he speaks with the apes. If there is anyone who has a book with that language, please contact me by my email address: cersiste@yahoo.com.