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

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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875?1950). Typed document signed (?E. R. Burroughs?) for the publication of ?The Eternal Lover?, 1 June 1925. 2 pages, 4to (330 x 210 mm), rectos only, docketed in manuscript verso, manuscript annotation in red to upper margin, upper corner stapled, folds present. A contractual agreement between Burroughs and A.C. McClurg for the publication in book form of the manuscript entitled ?The Eternal Lover?. The book is to be sold at retail for $2.00 and Burroughs is to receive royalties of 15% on the first 10,000 copies sold and 20% thereafter. SIGNED BY BURROUGHS and countersigned by the president of A.C. McClurg, Joseph Bray, and two witnesses