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Sale Number		231
Lot Number		91
Sale Name
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Collection of Ed Gilbert
Sale Date		11/15/2001
Price realized		$ 1380
(Includes 20% Buyer's Premium)

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Description:
Frontis. by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth lettered in black, jacket.
Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Burroughs to Ed Gilbert, his future brother-in-law, on the front free endpaper, "To Edward Gilbert, With every good wish, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, Feb. 7, 1927." The was the first book given by Burroughs to young Ed Gilbert, at their first meeting, when Gilbert was just 13 years old. There was a Grosset & Dunlap reprint in 1926, in Blue cloth, and serveral reprintings between 1927 and 1939 in red cloth which had a frontispiece. Zeuschner notes that the earliest of these had 11 ERB titles listed in the ads at rear; this copy has 15 ERB titles listed, but was published early in 1927, as evidenced by the date of the inscription. Thus in addition to the significant association, it also adds to the bibliographic knowledge of the Burroughs oeuvre. Heins X6.3; Zeuschner 82.
Condition:
Some darkening to the jacket, chipping at spine ends and corners, tape repairs on the verso; moderate soiling and stains to the covers, rubbing to spine ends, leaning, else very good in very good jacket.

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