THE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS LIBRARY
Over 1,100 Volumes
Collected From 1875 Through
1950
The surviving editions are held
in trust in the archive of grandson Danton Burroughs
Collated and Researched by
Bill Hillman
Shelf: B4
| Mary Borden 1886 - 1968 |
| Three Pilgrims and a Tinker ~ 1924 ~ Alfred A Knopf |
  Mary
Borden, the daughter of the wealthy businessman, William Borden, was
born in Chicago in 1886.Her first marriage to George D. Turner ended in
divorce. On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Borden she set
up a hospital unit on the Western Front.Borden, awarded the Croix de Guerre
by the French government, remained with the unit until 1918. During
the war Borden met Edward Spears, the head of the British Military Mission
in France. The couple married in March, 1918, and Spears later became a
member of the House of Commons (1922-24 and 1931-45). In 1928 Borden published
the novel Flamingo. She followed this with The
Forbidden Zone, an account of her experiences during the First
World War. A novel about a nurse on the Western Front, Sarah Gay,
appeared in 1931. Borden also wrote the controversial The Techniques
of Marriage (1933), a collection of short-stories, Passport for
a Girl (1939), Mary of Nazareth (1933), The King of the Jews
(1935), For the Record (1950) and Martin Merriedew
(1952) about a pacifist tried for treason. Mary Borden died in 1968.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wborden.htm |
| Captain Alan Bott MC (pseudonym 'Contact') |
| Cavalry of the Clouds ~ 1918 ~ Doubleday (UK edition titled
An
Airman's Outings written under the pseudonym 'Contact' while serving
with the RFC published by Blackwood in 1917)
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Alan Bott MC ~ 1893 - 1952: Founder of PAN Books Ltd. 
1893 Born 14th Jan. at Stoke-on-Trent 1915 He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery 1916 Moved to the Royal Flying Corps as a member of the 70th. Squadron (Umpty Squadron) in April. He was credited with 5 'kills' during the time he was in France. 2 Sep 1916 1905 70 Sopwith 1½ Strutter (A892) Fokker E (DES) Bourlon Wood 2 Sep 1916 1925 70 Sopwith 1½ Strutter (A892) Fokker E (OOC) Ytres-Sailly 15 Sep 1916 1840 70 Sopwith 1½ Strutter (A892) Fokker E (DES) Hendicourt 14 Apr 1918 1755 111 Nieuport (B3595) C (FTL-DES) NE of Arsum 15 Apr 1918 1700 111 Nieuport (B3595) C (DES) SE of Tul Keram Whilst serving with the 70th he wrote the book An Airman's Outings With The RFC under the pseudonym 'Contact' This was published in America in 1918 as Cavalry of the Clouds 1918 It was after he joined the 111th Squadron that Captain Bott crashed in the desert on April 22nd. and became imprisoned by the Turks. He later wrote about his escape to Constantinople in Eastern Flights 1920 - 1926 Alan Bott became Special Correspondent and Dramatic Critic for various journals. 1926 - 1932 Alan Bott became editor of The Graphic before it was taken over and amalgamated with The Sphere. He started The Book Society in 1929 1944 Pan Books was registered as a limited company in September. It was jointly owned by Alan Bott, Chairman and Managing Director, and The Book Society 1952 He died 17th. September |
| John G. Bourke |
| Apache Medicine-Men Washington. Extracted from 9th Annual
Report of the Bureau of Ethnology for 1887-88. GPO. 1892 ~445-603 pages.
Illustrations and six full colored lithographs of various magical artifacts
of the Apache.
Classic of 19th-century anthropology covers role of medicine-men in treating disease, superstitions, paraphernalia, medicine-women, the use of tule pollen as sacrificial powder, clay-eating, sacred breads and cakes, the izze-kloth or medicine cord, medicine hat, spirit or ghost dance headdress, amulets and talismans, more. Also analogous objects, rites, ceremonies in other cultures. 
OTHER: On the Border With Crook ~ reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Pr (June 1971) John Bourke writes of General George Crook, a legendary Indian fighter in post-Civil War Arizona, Wyoming, and Montanna. Bourke, who for most of the time was Crook's aide-de-camp, is an unabashed admirer of the General, but the book goes far beyond flattery and sycophancy. Bourke makes the reader admire Crook as much as he himself does, for Crook truly did possess unmatched stamina, experience, attention to detail and equal measures of sympathy for the Indians he was fighting and ruthlessness in his ambition to drive them onto the reservations. Bourke too admires the Indians, especially the Apaches. In fact, one of the book's high points is its almost anthropological descriptions of Apache life, the Arizona landscape, life in the frontier Army, and the social milieu of old Tuscon. The descriptions of Crook's campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne flag just a little, but only in comparison to Bourke's own rapturous discussions of life in the Southwest. The book that this compares best to is Eugene Ware's "The Indian War of 1864" (which I've also reviewed for Amazon). Ware, like Bourke, was a serving Army officer with a keen, sympathetic eye for all he saw in the old West. Both were involved in more hair-raising episodes than a dozen Hollywood action heroes combined. I too am a serving Army officer, and I can testify that none of my peers today has seen as much or writes so well. The concept of Manifest Destiny took root during the Mexican American War, and assumed grander proportions following the Civil War. Gen. Crook had been a calvery officer whose services proved to be of considerable value, as much for his ability as for his compassion for the Indians. His job was to protect the settlers and subdue the Indians by locating them on reservations. The author was with Crook during his first and second Southwest campaigns as well as that of the Northern Plains. His love for his commander and appreciation of the Indians made him the perfect writer for the topic. Gen. Crook seems the ideal officer for the job, but was defeated, not by the Indians but Agents assigned, after the army had done its work, to reservations by Washington. The book is a wonderful description of the duty performed by Gen. Crook who, had his system been utilized, would have led to a better life for all. In the end, Bourke feels, Crook died of a broken heart. Important history, and a story too beautifully told to miss.
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: November 20, 1872, to July
28, 1876 ~ reprinted by University of North Texas Press (March
2003)
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Danton Burroughs found the following note with the manuscript for The War Chief: "I have gone over the 'copy' carefully and have indicated a number of phrases, sentences and paragraphs deleted by them, which I wish to have retained. The preparation of the manuscript required considerable research work and as it is necessary for the reader to be able to understand the viewpoint of the Indian, if he is to be in sympathy with the principal character, it is essential that much of the matter deleted should remain even though it draws comparisons that may be odious to some people of our own race and sometimes shocking to people whose religious convictions are particularly strong. I should also call your attention to an Indian name and an Indian word concerning which the magazine editor and I seem not to agree. The name is that of a famous Apache Chief, Mangas Colorado, variously spelled Mangus and Magnus. From a very old book I obtained the suggestion of the derivation of this name, which in Spanish means colored sleeves. The author supposed that the name may have been given to him by the Mexicans, either because of the garment he wore with colored sleeves or from the fact that his sleeves or arms were stained with the blood of his victims.
The magazine editor deleted what evidently appeared to him tiresome descriptions of Indian customs, such as burial ceremonies and the decoration of the bodies of medicine men, but as there is not a great of this and I believe that it is all based on good authority, it should be permitted to remain." |
| Marjorie Bowen (pseud of Gabrielle Margaret Campbell Long) |
| Stinging Nettles 1923
Stinging Nettles depicts an Italian husband as a diseased wastrel whose wife selflessly nurses him into the grave, though having for him little honest affection. Other:
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  Marjorie Bowen is remembered primarily as a distinguished historical novelist, but her vast literary legacy additionally embraces several supremely accomplished tales of terror. Miss Bowen s ruthlessly honest portrayal of human nature and masterful knowledge of period settings combine with her keen sensitivity for the macabre in a group of eerie tales that often scale the heights of starkly spectral fear. Prefaced with an introduction by the author, the stories include The Hidden Ape, Kecksies, Raw Material, The Avenging of Ann Leete, The Crown Derby Plate, The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes, Scoured Silk, The Breakdown, One Remained Behind, The House by the Poppy Field, Florence Flannery, and Half Past Two. Jacket by Stephen E. Fabian. Bowen was a true master of her macabre art...One is inclined to place her solidly in the ranks of Le Fanu, Onions, Cram, and certainly M. R. James. --Dr. Frederick Shroyer in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Bibliography |
| William Bowen |
| The Outcast Gnome
OTHER: The Old Tobacco Shop ~ 1921 ` Macmillan Co ~ 235 pages ~ "A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure."  |
William E. Bowen, age 16. Dated 1864. The back of the card gives photography credit to: NR Lewis (successor to A Bisbee) in Cleveland Ohio. A CDV (short for carte-de-viste) was the most popular format for portrait photography in the 19th century. The format became popular in the late 1850s when a technique was developed for making multiple negatives on a single glass plate (thereby reducing the cost of portrait photography), and it remained popular the 1860's. A CDV usually measures about 4" x 2-1/2". |
| Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen |
| Gunnar
Boyesen’s first and most successful novel, Gunnar, has only the most tenuous connection with Norwegian immigration. America is not mentioned in this romantic novel. Boyesen, a homesick young expatriate, looked back nostalgically to his native land and wrote a peasant idyll, probably suggested by Bjørnson’s Arne. The success of the book kept its author in America. He optimistically predicted that it wouldhave a large sale among Norwegian Americans in the West, but his letters to Rasmus B. Anderson suggest that this hope was not fulfilled, and place the blame for it on the lack of publicity in the Scandinavian-American press. The Modern Vikings OTHER:
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career of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, “the first writer of Norwegian
birth or blood to use the English language in the successful cultivation
of literary art” has been subject to general misunderstanding for a number
of reasons. The most important misconception involves Boyesen’s writings
about Norwegian immigration to the United States. Many of his stories fall
into this category, and since Boyesen him self was a Norwegian immigrant,
critics have assumed that he was well qualified to write on the subject.
But Boyesen was not a part of the main stream of Norwegian immigration
to the western states, and a study of his literary output will show that
his serious interests were in other fields. Boyesen was twenty-one when
he came to the United States as a graduate of the Royal Fredrik University
in Christiania. When he died at forty-seven he had published twenty-four
books, all in English; his uncollected magazine material would fill another
twenty-four volumes. For more than twenty years he was a professor of Germanic
literature at Cornell and Columbia universities. His popular reputation,
a very considerable one from 1875 to 1895, has long since ceased to exist,
but Boyesen has not been entirely for gotten. Histories of American literature
give him scant mention and reveal a surprising ignorance of his work and
its significance. He generally fares better at the hands of historians
of intellectual and cultural movements, who still re member his courageous
fight for realistic fiction dealing with important aspects of American
life, and his strictures against the “Iron Madonna,” the young girl magazine
reader whose taste for romantic claptrap prevented American novelists from
writing about serious matters, or from selling their fiction if they did.
One further aspect of Boyesen’s career has been generally overlooked: he
was an important liaison man between European and American literature.
.. .more
http://www2.naha.stolaf.edu/publications/volume19/vol19_2.htm |
| Cyrus Townsend Brady |
| Richard the Brazen
OTHER:
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| Max Brand (1896-1980) |
| Alcatraz
The Untamed   |
 Max Brand,
the most famous pseudonym of Frederick Faust, made his fictional Wild West
an arena for the characters of myth and legend to live and battle again.
While Owen Wister (in The Virginian) and Zane Grey (in Riders of the Purple
Sage and many other novels) made the West an epic landscape for romantic
heroes to ride across and populate, Brand released the mythic urge that
dwells within the finest storytellers and placed demigods on a timeless
western landscape of no particular place that he used again and again.
It began with his first western novel, The Untamed, which first appeared
as a six-part serial in All-Story magazine, starting in its issue dated
Dec. 7, 1918. The story's popularity ensured its publication in book form,
and Tom Mix starred in the silent movie based upon the novel. Faust wrote
hundreds of novels and stories set in this mythic western wonderland. Westerns
weren't all that he wrote. He published mysteries, historical sagas, and
basically invented the medical story when he created Dr. Kildare. His prodigious
production of popular fiction marked him as larger than life, not so different
from the characters he created on paper. Like many of his larger-than-life
characters, Faust was a man of contradictions. Greatly popular under many
pen names for his fiction, Faust's greatest desire was to gain renown under
his actual name for his classically styled poetry -- yet this work never
found an audience. Prevented from serving in the Army and going to battle
because of his damaged heart, Faust poured his energies and desires for
a life of adventure into the protagonists that peopled his stories.Each
year, new books appear in print based on Faust's pulp writings. His imagination
continues to grip new readers generation after generation. |
| Lt. Col. Brereton |
| With the Allies to the Rhine
Other:
 
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| Lieutenant Bringolf |
| I Have No Regrets ~ 1932 ~ NY: E.P. Dutton ~ Eight illustrations
~ 286 pages
These memoirs of Lieutenant Bringolf, was edited by Blaise Cendrars and translated from the French by Warre B. Wells.  |
| Lt. Bringolf was a brilliant embassy attache in the capitals of Europe and patron of pawnbrokers; favourite partner at court balls in Vienna and Berlin, and later a dish-washer at the Savoy Hotel in Rosario de Santa-Fe in Argentina, courtier and lover of princesses, and holder of the Medal of the Legion of Honour. |
| James Brisbin |
| Trees and Tree Planting ~ 1888
"To prune a tree so as to serve the purpose for which it is wanted, observation of its natural habit will soon teach the planter how much or how little is required to be cut away." etc. |
| Louis Bromfield 1896-1956 |
| Possession
The Green Bay Tree    The Green Bay Tree Early Autumn The Man Who Had Everything Video Biography: The Man Who Had Everything Pleasant Valley: About life on his Malabar Farm. |
 
Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) American popular novelist and essayist, forgotten agrarian reformer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel EARLY AUTUMN (1926), a portrait of an old New England family. Many of Bromfield's novels have rural setting and have strongly American atmosphere, although he set some of his stories in India. One of the central themes in Bromfield's work is the contrast between city and the country - he saw his own farm as a refuge from the mechanized world, but it also was a meeting place for a number of his friends. Louis Bromfield was
born in Mansfield, Ohio, on a farm. He studied at Cornell Agricultural
College in 1914-15 and journalism in 1916 at Columbia University, receiving
honorary war degree in 1920. After the United States declared war on Germany
in the World War I Bromfield joined the American Ambulance Corps, with
the 34th and 168th divisions of the French Army. He served in the army
from 1917 to 1919 and was decorated for his services. Bromfield then returned
to journalism in New York. He wrote critics for several periodicals, among
them the Bookman and Time magazine. He also worked as an assistant to theatrical
producer and as advertising manager. In 1921 he married Mary Appleton Wood;
they had three daughters. She died in 1952.
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