Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan -(two volume soft covers)- -(in slipcase)-

New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. ----- # 012992 - The scans you see are the books you get. Large soft covers/trade (roughly) 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" by 3" (inches) (in box/slipcase) square clean & tight, flat spines, with a total of 1310 pages filled with photos, Very Good Plus condition with a few spine creases, vol 1 has a lowerr spine bump at front edge, minor edge wear, slipcase is in Very Good condition with edge wear/rubbing & a small remainder punched hole. "On a July day in 1911 Edgar Rice Burroughs sat in a small office at the intersection of Market & Monroe streets in Chicago. He had borrowed desk space from a friend in order to launch his latest entrerprise, an agency for the sale of pencil sharpeners. The salesmen who responded to his ads were sent out on a commission basis. "They did not sell any pencil sharpeners,' he noted, 'but in the leisure moments, while I was waiting for them to come back to tell me that they had not sold any." Thus begins the first chapter of Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan. while he waited for the salesmen to return, Burroughs began to write "Under the Moons of Mars" (A Princess of Mars), the first of many works that have made him one of the world's most interesting writers." Contents include: Foreword by Hulbert Burroughs / Preface / Intro: "Tarzan, John Carter, Mr. Burroughs, & the Long Mad Summer of 1930" by Ray Bradbury / Prologue - The Creative Decision / The Early Years / Schooling, Rebellion, and Discipline / The Long Journey to Adulthood / The Seventh Cavarlry and Beyond / Marriage, Wanderings, & Reality / Frantic Years & a Taste of Success / From Medievalism to the Jungle / The Outlaw of Torn / Tarzan of the Apes / Writing as a Profession / From Stories to Movies / The Writer at Home / Film Frustration / Travels & World War I / Auto-gypsying / Writer-patriot / A California Setting / Gentleman Farmer / Tarzana - Family, Business, Creativity / Problems at Home and Abroad / Social Commentator, Columnist / Diverse Writings / Minor & Major Momey-makers / Personal Crisis & Adjustment / From California to Hawaii / Burroughs-Tarzan Films / War Correspondent / Venus-Mars-Pellucidar Series & Other Works / Home to Peace and Serenity / Last Years with the family / Notes / Major George & Mary Evaline; Genealogy; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction writer: An Autobiographicla Sketch; List of ERB's Complete Works; Reminiscences of Hulbert Burroughs; "Of Beans and Rice" by Forrest J. Ackerman / index /+ Check out the scans.. 1st Ballantine Edition 1st Printing. Soft Covers Boxed Set. Very Good Plus. 8vo.