Vintage 288 page mass market paperback titled LORD TYGER by Philip Jose Farmer/ Signet Books No. Q5096, ISBN # 0-451-Q5096-0, First Printing, July 1972, This copy is a Third printing from 1974/ The story concerns a very wealthy and insane white South African man who is obsessed with the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He decides to use his money to buy a secluded jungle valley where he can create a real Tarzan following the events in the first Tarzan book. But the Tarzan books weren't very accurate or plausible and the boy chosen to be the real-life Tarzan doesn?t follow the rules. For example, he falls in love with a local black girl instead of the white 'Jane' who has been arranged for him. And eating raw meat makes him sick. Soon enough he discovers he is the guinea pig in an experiment and he decides to get revenge... The book is complete and in GOOD - VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear and tanned/browning pages. (see pictures)