EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
TWO COLLECTOR'S ITEMS
    There is a lot I could say about these two books and their autographs, all of which would be true, but unprovable.  Like: I was told by his secretary that these were the last books ERB signed.  [Of course no documentation concerning that.  They were signed within weeks or months of his death--I believe he was in the hospital when he did sign them, though memory might have clouded that detail.]
    The important thing, though, is that they are signed by both ERB and his son, the illustrator of the two books, John Coleman Burroughs.  [It was some time after ERB's death that his son agreed to sign these two books, which his father had signed.  I was at the ERB,Inc offices at the time, when I met John Coleman Burroughs--a very nice fella indeed.]  I doubt there are very many Burroughs books with the double signature around.  Because of this fact, it makes these two books rare items, indeed.  I have considered it only fair to suggest a price which reflects this fact rather than the popularity of either of these first editions [or even their condition, which is fairly close to mint].
    Regardless of all that: it is the autographs that count!


I have kept them as the final link to a collection I built in my teens, in and around the late 1940's.  I've treasured them and wish to make certain they are turned over to somebody who will equally value these books.  Thusly, having consulted some valued experts in the field, I've come up with the following suggested price:
$2200 for each book.

If you are interested all you have to do is click on the graphic green frog below:


Green Toad, Books




(Both are in what I would be considered pretty good + condition--near mint. There are some minor stains and imperfections on the LoG jacket spine.  A signed letter will be offered to the buyer concerning the information given on this page insofar as my understanding that these were probably the last books ERB signed, a few weeks before his death .  [He died Sunday, March 19, 1950, at home in Encino, California, just miles from Tarzana,]  Mildred Jenson, ERB's long-time secretary told me they were the last he signed.)