Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875?1950). Typed document signed (?E. R. Burroughs?) for the publication of ?The Eternal Lover?, 1 June 1925. 2 pages, 4to (330 x 210 mm), rectos only, docketed in manuscript verso, manuscript annotation in red to upper margin, upper corner stapled, folds present. A contractual agreement between Burroughs and A.C. McClurg for the publication in book form of the manuscript entitled ?The Eternal Lover?. The book is to be sold at retail for $2.00 and Burroughs is to receive royalties of 15% on the first 10,000 copies sold and 20% thereafter. SIGNED BY BURROUGHS and countersigned by the president of A.C. McClurg, Joseph Bray, and two witnesses