10 coffee table books that make great gifts

Stuck for a present for that friend that's hard to shop for? Check out one of these gorgeous coffee table books.

9. 'Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration,' by Scott Tracy Griffin

The character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs who grew up in the jungle and is best known for his ululating call is fêted in the new book "Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration." Griffin's book includes commentary on all the "Tarzan" novels as well as offering every bit of Tarzan media from comic strips to movie stills and discussing key bits of "Tarzan" lore such as the lost-race plot device. "Edgar Rice Burroughs was enamored of this concept, planting lost cities and tribes around the world and across the solar system," Griffin writes. "He ... included lost races or cities in all but five of the Tarzan novels."

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