This is my copy of the abridged "Authorized Edition Prepared Especially for Young Readers," published in 1967 by the Whitman Publishing Division of Western Publishing Company, Inc. Not to be confused with my copy of "The Only Authorized Edition, Complete and Unabridged."

In this abridged edition, chapters 1-6 and 13 of the original work have been entirely omitted in addition to other alterations to the remaining text.

Contents:
1. Tarzan Comes to the Desert
2. The Fight in the Desert
3. Numa "El Adrea"
4. Through the Valley of the Shadow
5. John Caldwell, London
6. Ships That Pass
7. Back to the Primitive
8. From Ape to Savage
9. The Ivory Raiders
10. The White Chief of the Waziri
11. The Lottery of Death
12. The City of Gold
13. La
14. The Castaways
15. The Treasure Vaults of Opar
16. The Fifty Frightful Men
17. How Tarzan Came Again to Opar
18. Through the Forest Primeval
19. The Passing of the Ape-Man