Archive of Burrough's first agent, William Garrard Chapman

by Edgar Rice Burroughs, William Garrard Chapman

$50,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Chicago: 1913-. Letters between Burroughs and his first agent, President of the International Press Bureau, 1913-1926, regarding the origin, serialization, distribution, publication, dramatization, and filming of Tarzan of the Apes, and other early Burroughs literary properties; the relationship concluding in a lawsuit between the two, Chapman the plaintiff seeking 5000 in damages, the two settling in Chapman's favor for 1000. With related correspondence, in nine binders. From Burroughs: 51

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.