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TO JOAN FROM "PAPA" BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. The Lad and the Lion. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. 8vo, bright blue cloth lettered in red,

TO JOAN FROM "PAPA" BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. The Lad and the Lion. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. 8vo, bright blue cloth lettered in red, minor rubbing to edges; dust jacket, 1/2 -inch chip at head of spine panel just affecting "L" of Lad, small chips at tips and other extremities rubbed with a few minor tears. Tarzana, 1938

  • Notes: inscribed and signed "papa" by burroughs to daughter, joan on front endpaper. "with love...Tarzana Feb 14 1938." Joan Burroughs married Jim Pierce, one of the pre-Johnny Weismuller Tarzans. Although not a screaming success on film, he and Joan became the stars of the Tarzan radio series written and produced by Edgar RIce Burroughs, Inc. Sold to broadcasters around the country, it became the first packaged serial.

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