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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Very Rare Photo-Offset Num

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Very Rare Photo-Offset Num
<B>Edgar Rice Burroughs: Very Rare Photo-Offset Numbered First Edition of <I>The Girl from Farris's</B></I></B></I> <B>in Black Leatherette.</B></I> (Tacoma, Washington: The Wilma Company, 1959), first edition, title page plus 47 text pages, black leatherette binding, approximately 3.75" x 4.25". This is a very exciting Burroughs collectible. In 1959, having discovered that the copyright had lapsed on this particular story, a group of Burroughs fans in Tacoma photo-offset the text from <I>All-Story Weekly,</B></I> reduced it to a sixth of its size, and bound 250 copies. This is one of the even-rarer copies bound in black leatherette, and like both the 1927 Volland Company copy and the 1935 Whitman Publishing Company copy of <I>Tarzan Twins</B></I> offered elsewhere in this catalog, it is from the Sam Moskowitz collection, sold in 1999 at a prominent New York auction house. It is numbered "<I>24</B></I>" in blue ink on the limitation page at the rear of the book. The book is in very good condition, though the rear endpaper is starting to separate. This is a truly amazing Burroughs first edition from the collection of one of science fiction's greatest fans.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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