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Burroughs, Edgar Rice.
Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder.
Publisher: Guidry & Atkins, New Orleans, LA;
Date of Publication: 2001
Stock Code: 14450
First edition. Hardcover octavo, pp., 283, of which are 13 are appendix. Ten full-page and eight in-text black and white illustrations, by Danny Frolich. With a previously unpublished photographic frontispiece of the author. Original pictorial dust-jacket. Publisher’s royal-blue cloth, bright red lettering to spine and upper board, harking back to the cloth used in the original ERB Inc. editions. No noticeable faults or imperfections. A near-fine copy. A collection of all Burroughs non-Tarzan short stories and mystery puzzles, most of which have never before appeared in print. The 18 nearly forgotten works are beautifully produced and introduced by Burroughs scholars John Guidry and Patrick H. Adkins, with authorisation from ERB Inc. The stories within date from 1912 (pre-dating the first publication of any Tarzan story) to circa 1944. Scarce. £150.00