BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875?1950). The War Chief. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. 8vo. Illustrated title by an unidentified artist, glossary at rear. Publisher?s orange cloth pictorially stamped and titled in dark brown to upper cover and spine; original dust jacket designed by Paul Stahr (horizontal creasing to panels, else fine). FIRST EDITION of this ?historically accurate novel of the Apache Indians and their war with the whites in the Southwest? based on ERB?s deep appreciation of the Apaches gained when he was enlisted with the U.S. 7th Cavalry in the Arizona Territory during the campaign of 1896?97. A BRIGHT COPY. Currey p. 94; Heins WC?1 (X12); Zeuschner 822.