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Sat, Feb 26, 2022 12:00PM EST
Lot 261

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Escape on Venus. Tarzana...

Estimate: $400 - $600

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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Escape on Venus. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., 1946. 8vo. 5 black and white plates including frontispiece by ERB?s son, John Coleman Burroughs. Publisher?s original pebbled blue cloth lettered in gold, red top edge; original dust jacket. Includes pastedown identifying book as one that survived a devastating fire in the Burroughs storeroom on 3 May 1958. FIRST EDITION (stated) of the fourth book in the Venus series. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER AND PASTEDOWN BY HULBERT BURROUGHS, ERB?s son. A FINE COPY. Currey p. 88; Heins EV-1 (V4); Zeuschner 126.