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Burroughs, Edgar Rice.
The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County.
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Tarzana;
Date of Publication: 1940
Stock Code: 14453
First Edition, First Issue; conforming with all the issue points in the standard bibliographies. Hardcover octavo, pp., 312, plus frontispiece and 22 chapter headpieces illustrated by the author’s son, John Coleman Burroughs. Pictorial laminated first-issue dust-jacket. Original publisher’s grey pebbled cloth, lettered in red to spine and upper board. Top edge dyed red, fore-edge uncut. The slightest of shelf-wear to spine-tips. Very slight and even toning to fore-edge. Overall a sharp, clean and rather bright copy. Near-fine. The fifty-fifth ERB hardback. Despite the ‘1941’ date to jacket, both Zeuschner and Heins concur that the novel was in fact published in 1940. £325.00