PREFACE Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Exhaustive Scholar's and Collector's Descriptive Bibliography is intended for collectors, libraries, rare book dealers, auction houses, and everyone else interested in the works of the extraordinary American author, Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 - March 19, 1950). The emphasis of this book is focused on the American hardback editions. There is an complete description of every Burroughs first edition, and the first state of the first edition is clearly distinguished from the second state, the third state, all reprintings by first edition publishers, and all other American hardback reprints. This information can be found quickly because all of the titles of hardback and significant paperback editions published in North America through 1995 are listed in alphabetical order. For the sake of completeness, there are brief entries for the two new ERB books which are scheduled to be published in 1996, You Lucky Girl! and Marcia of the Doorstep. Each listing begins with a description of the first magazine appearance of the story. Next, the hardback first edition is set apart from the rest of the entries and described in detail. Then the major American reprint editions are listed chronologically and differentiated. Finally, the earliest of the paperback printings are noted, followed by subsequent paperback reprintings which may be significant because of a change of cover artist, or for other related reasons. The first entry of each listing situates the Burroughs story so that the reader will know approximately when it was written, and which novel or short story was written immediately before or after. The information in this Bibliography comes from several sources. The primary source is my own personal collection. However, my own knowledge and collection are not sufficient to account for every listing in this book. I have relied upon the expertise of many Burroughs scholars who have published articles found in the hundreds of issues of Burroughs fanzines to which I've subscribed and collected since the early 1950s. Many of these fine scholars are mentioned by name in the Acknowledgments. But, most importantly, this book is simultaneously an amplification upon, and an abridgement of, the two primary bibliographic sources. They are: 1) Henry Hardy Heins, A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, Donald M. Grant, Rhode Island, 1964. 2) George T. McWhorter, EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS MEMORIAL COLLECTION: A CATALOG, House of Greystoke (ERB Memorial Collection, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292), 1991. George T. McWhorter's A CATALOG is a comprehensive listing of library holdings of the Ekstrom Library (University of Louisville) up to 1991, the world's largest collection of materials by and about Edgar Rice Burroughs. Profusely illustrated, it has a detailed and lengthy bibliographic essay by McWhorter which carefully describes the printing history of the first edition publishers and the reprint publishers of Burroughs' works. Reflecting years of scholarly research in the Library of Congress and dozens of other original sources, Henry H. Heins' A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY lists precise details on all editions through 1964, with appendices, lists, and numerous illustrations. Mr. Heins also provides reproductions of the magazine art work of the great illustrator of Burroughs, J. Allen St. John. Unfortunately, Mr. Heins' BIBLIOGRAPHY has been out of print since 1965, and is difficult and expensive to obtain. In addition to the two books mentioned above, I have used valuable bibliographical information found in the remarkable biography of Burroughs written by Irwin Porges, EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE MAN WHO CREATED TARZAN (1975)