The working title, Tarzan and the Man Things, was published as a seven-part serial in The Blue Book Magazine, October 1930 through April 1931 as Tarzan, Guard of the Jungle. It is Burroughs thirty-sixth hardback book and is the first hardback published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Grosset & Dunlap, Tarzana, Ace, and Ballantine have done reprints. Information obtained from Robert B. Zeuschner's The Exhaustive Scholar's and Collector's Descriptive Bibliography.