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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Typed document signed (?...

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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Typed document signed (?Edgar Rice Burroughs?) for the publication of ?Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar?. March 28, 1918. 2 pp. typed, rectos only, 4to (330 x 210 mm). The manuscript is to be published in book form and sold at retail for $1.35. Burroughs is to receive royalties of 15% of all copies sold and .05 cents for every ?cheap reprint? that is sold. SIGNED BY BURROUGHS and countersigned by the vice president of A. C. McClurg, the publisher Joseph Bray, and Burroughs? wife Emma Hulbert Burroughs.