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Sale Number		231
Lot Number		66
Sale Name
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Collection of Ed Gilbert
Sale Date		11/15/2001
Price realized		$ 1610
(Includes 20% Buyer's Premium)

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Description:
Illus. with 5 plates by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in orange, jacket. First Edition.
Presentation copy inscribed by Burroughs to his mother-in-law on the front free endpaper, "To Maud Gilbert, With all good wishes always, Ed. Tarzana, May 6, 1936." Also inscribed by Maud Gilbert's daughter, Florence Gilbert Burroughs, on the top of the Prologue page, "Find the key and you find the message. Florence Gilbert Burroughs." The message is that the first letter of each chapter spells out "TO FLORENCE WITH ALL MY LOVE ED." Though the story was written in 1933, as Burroughs marriage to his first wife Emma was falling apart, Burroughs arranged it so that the first words in the chapters would spell the message. John Carter's Princess yet again needs rescuing, this time on Mars' nearer moon, Thuria. The jacket is in the laminated state. Heins M8.1; Zeuschner 501.
Condition:
Jacket spine faded a touch, some chipping to the ends, tape repairs on verso; covers darkened a bit at top and bottom edges, near fine in very good or better jacket.

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