 The combined book was published first as a hardcover by Canaveral Press in early 1965, and as a paperback by Ballantine Books in July 1965.Written starting in November 1940, and first published as a three-part serial in "Argosy Weekly" (1941, August 23 & 30 and September 6) as “The Quest of Tarzan”.The story was retitled for the eponymous 1965 novel to avoid confusion with the earlier novel "Tarzan's Quest".