For
several years I have been a reader of your magazines. Some may think it
odd that a Minister would take time to read science fiction. However, despite
the fact that I have my B.A. and Master's degrees and will soon have my
Ph.D.., I greatly enjoy reading FANTASTIC ADVENTURES and AMAZING STORIES.
This type of reading furnishes me with many pleasant hours of relaxation,
which form a contrast to the heavier type of reading material which is
part of my regular reading diet.
I am especially interested in the works of Mr. Edgar Rice
Burroughs of Tarzana, California. I have ALL of his published books, including
several foreign editions. I also have the major portion of his stories
in their original magazine form. In addition to the above I have a special
collection of all the book jackets from Burroughs' books arranged in a
special E.R. Burroughs scrap book. I notice that so many of your readers
are interested in this author and that is why I would appreciate deeply
your publishing this letter. To complete my collection I need the following:
1) Several Burroughs First Editions published by A C.
McClurg and E. R. Burroughs, Inc., Publishers.
2) The July 1927 issue of Amazing Stories containing
"The Master-Mind of Mars."
3) A Number of the older magazine stories of Burroughs,
especially back-numbers of All Story Magazine, All Story Weekly, Argosy
All Story Weekly, All Story Cavalier, New Story Magazine, The Munsey, Thrilling
Adventures, Blue Book, and Red Book.
4) A copy of The New York Evening World (a N.
Y. Newspaper, now out of business) for Oct. 1915 containing Burroughs'
story "Ben, King of Beasts."
5) Two Burroughs books for children: "The Tarzan Twins,"
197 and "Tarzan and the Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion," 1936, a
Big-big book published by Whitman.
6) Book Jackets from Burroughs books.
7) Any Tarzan Big Little books or Tarzan comics.
8) A. L Burt reprints of the early Burroughs books.
9) E. R. Burroughs Foreign Editions
I also have quite a bit of Burroughs material that I will
sell or trade. If any of you readers have any of the above material, or
could give information as to how I might secure it, please let me hear
from you at your earliest convenience.
I am still looking forward to the balance of the John
Carter of Mars series of which "Skeleton Men of Jupiter" was the first.
When will you print the next story and how many stories are in this series.
Incidentally Mr. J. Allen St. John is one of the very best illustrators.
Rev. Darrell C. Richardson
Ormsby Village
Anchorage, Kentucky
No more from Burroughs till after the war. He is now
a war correspondent. ~ Ed.
Fantasy Fiction Field ~ June 1944
Facts On The Works of
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Compiled by D.C Richardson
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DARRELL RICHARDSON
Fanzine Appearances in the '40s
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