BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice]. DOCUMENT SIGNED. , 1929.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Chicago, September 7, 1929, Small folio, 1 page. Contract between A.C. McClurg and Grosset & Dunlap, for the rights to reprint 25,000 copies of Burroughs' "The Monster Men." Signed by Joseph E. Bray for McClurg and A. Grosset for Grosset & Dunlap, and two witnesses; with a red ink notation transferring the rights back to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in April, 1938. Not signed by ERB.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE MONSTER MEN. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1929.

Price: US$3750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-304, original tan cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. Professor Maxon's monsters, "souless, malformed, brainless . [but] nevertheless composed of flesh and blood and endowed with the spark of life," run amok in the jungle country of "savage" Borneo killing hordes of Dyaks while in pursuit of a lustful rajah who has kidnapped the professor's lovely daughter. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 335. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 111. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02297. Heins MMe-1. Zeuschner 329. Stain to lower left front cover extending to lower right corner of spine, a very good copy in a restored four-color pictorial dust jacket (front panel reproducing a painting by J. Allen St. John) with all panels cut into sections reattached with narrow sections along top and bottom edges and folds restored in facsimile. A stunning piece of work by a master paper conservator. (31174)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.