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Collecting Edgar Rice Burroughs

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As an avid Burroughs collector, I awaited the receipt of "Collecting Edgar Rice Burroughs" with great anticipation. After reading the book, I debated whether to return it for a refund. It is of almost no value to a collector. First, it contains no information about any of the Tarzan books. Secondly, it contains no information or valuation for any of the A.L. Burt or Grosset and Dunlap editions of Burroughs books. Thirdly, valuations for first editions are only given with the dust jacket, no value is given for the book without the dust jacket. Fourthly, the values given for those first editions are grossly inflated. I regularly buy those same books in Burroughs auctions for approximately 1/10th the price at which Erardi valuates them. Fifthly, none of the information needed to discriminate between a first edition and a second printing is given.

There is really very little information in this book. It consists mostly of color pictures of various dust jackets and paperback and pulp covers. If pictures of the artwork are what you want, this is the book for you. If you are looking for a reference book to help in your collecting of Edgar Rice Burroughs, look somewhere else.

This book doesn't even come up to "Worthless" for a description. It has nothing in it that would help a collector to descern one edition of a book from another. It has NOTHING about the series of stories that ERB is most famous for (Tarzan) and what it has on the other series and single story books is empty fluff at best. There are some very nice photos but there is no cohesiveness. No information on first editions, what differentiates a first from a second edition etc. The prices listed are not only unrealistic but grossly unrealistic. Do youeself a favor and DO NOT BUY this book.