TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR 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 1929. <i>Cover art and title page illustration by Roy Krenkel, Jr.</i> To Joan Burroughs Pierce II Edgar Rice Burroughs <i>available in Ace Books:</i> AT THE EARTH'S CORE (F-156) THE MOON MAID (F-157) PELLUCIDAR (F-158) THE MOON MEN (F-159) THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (F-168) TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE (F-169) THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (F-170) Printed in U.S.A. CONTENTS Prologue Introduction I Stellara II Disaster III Amiocap IV Letari V The Tandor Hunter VI The Island of Love VII “Korsars!” VIII Mow IX Love and Treachery X Pursuit XI Gura XII “I Hate You!” XIII Prisoners XIV Two Suns XV Madness XVI The Darkness Beyond XVII Down to the Sea Conclusion PROLOGUE Jason Gridley is a radio bug. Had he not been, this story never would have been written. Jason is twenty-three and scandalously good looking—too good looking to be a bug of any sort. As a matter of fact, he does not seem buggish at all—just a normal, sane, young American, who knows a great deal about many things in addition to radio; aeronautics, for example, and golf, and tennis, and polo. But this is not Jason’s story—he is only an incident—an important incident in my life that made this story possible, and so, with a few more words of explanation, we shall leave Jason to his tubes and waves and amplifiers, concerning which he knows everything and I nothing. Jason is an orphan with an income, and after he graduated from Stanford, he came down and bought a couple of acres at Tarzana, and that is how and when I met him.