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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875–1950). The Mad King. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1926. 8vo. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Publisher’s dark blue lettered in orange (spine a bit sunned); facsimile dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: “Best to/Eddie Gilbert/from/Edgar Rice Burroughs”. Eddie Gilbert was a close friend to ERB and the brother of Burroughs’ second wife and silent film actress Florence Gilbert. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the sixth paragraph on p. 12 ending with “face of the man”; p. 92, line 16 is identical with line 22; and the incorrect date on the title being “1026” for 1926. Heins MK–1 (X10); Zeuschner 301.