THE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS LIBRARY
Over 1,200 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: W1
THE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS LIBRARY
Over 1,200 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: W1
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Mid-1920s ERB, Inc. Office Inventory: Displayed in Blue 50s Notebook presented by Danton to the McWhorter Memorial Collection ~ Displayed in Black Titles in the present Danton Burroughs Collection dictated to Bruce Bozarth ~ Displayed in Red Titles Collated by George McWhorter from the Porges Papers: Displayed in Green Burroughs Library List Compiled by Phil Burger: Displayed in Grey Lost Editions Uncovered by Hillman Research in Gold |
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WALKER, J.: Walkers Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language (revised ed.) WALLACE: Great Stories of Real Life WALLACE: Island Life WALLACE, Edgar A King by Night WALLACE: Mexican Sierras WAR DEPT.: Basic Field Manual - Paper Pamphlets by War Dept. WARD, Andrew Henshaw: A Genealogical History of the Rice Family WARD, Florence Phyllis Anne WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales & Co WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales B. A. WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales Decides WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales Freshman WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales Junior WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales on Campus WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales Senior WARDE, Margaret Betty Wales Sophomore The Water World WATKINS, Shirley Nancy of Paradise Cottage WATT-MUNN: Ideas and Forms? in English and American Literature WEBSTER, Henry Kitchell Real Life WEBSTER, Henry Kitchell The Innocents WEBSTER, Jean Daddy Long Legs WEBSTER, Jean Dear Enemy WEBSTER, Jean When Patty Went to College WELLS, Carolyn A Daughter of the House WELLS, Carolyn Doris of Dobbs Ferry WELLS, Carolyn Feathers Left Around WELLS, Carolyn Patty and Azalea WELLS, Carolyn Patty at Home WELLS, Carolyn Patty Blossom WELLS, Carolyn Patty Fairfield WELLS, Carolyn Patty in Paris WELLS, Carolyn Patty in the City WELLS, Carolyn Patty-Bride WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Butterfly Days WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Fortune WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Friends WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Motor Car WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Pleasure Trip WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Romance WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Social Season WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Success WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Suitors WELLS, Carolyn Patty's Summer Days WELLS, Carolyn Prillil Girl WELLS, Carolyn Raspberry Jam WELLS, Carolyn Spooky Hollow WELLS, Carolyn The 14th Key WELLS, Carolyn The Affair At Flowers Acres WELLS, Carolyn The Bronze Hand WELLS, Carolyn The Curved Blades WELLS, Carolyn The Luminous Face WELLS, Carolyn The Mystery Girl WELLS, Carolyn The Vanishing of Betty Varian WELLS, Carolyn Vicky Van WELLS, Reuben. Field ~ With Caesar's Legions WELLS, Carveth: Adventure WELLS, Carveth: Six Years in the Malay Jungle WERNER, M. R.: Barnum WERNER, M. R.: Brigham Young WESTERFIELD, Jonathan B.: The Scientific Dream Book and Dictionary of Dream Symbols WEYMAN, Stanley J. Under the Red Robe WEYMAN: Under the Red Robe WHARTON, Edith False Dawn WHARTON, Edith New Years Day WHARTON, Edith The House of Mirth WHARTON, Edith The Old Maid WHARTON, Edith The Spark WHEELER, Colonel Homer W. The Frontier Trail WHITE, Edward Lucas: Andivius Hedulio WHITE, Walter Grainge: Sea Gypsies of Malaya: An Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago WHITE: Them Was the Days WHITE, Mrs. Annie R. Easy Steps for Little Feet WHITE, Grace Miller The Secret of the Storm Country WHITE, J. J. Funabout Fords WHITNEY, Casper: Jungle Trails and Jungle People (NY, Harper, 1922) WHITNEY, Casper: Jungle Trails & Jungle People WILDER, George Albert: The White African: The Story of Mafavuke "Who Dies and Lives Again"...(Bloomfield, NJ, Morse, 1933) WILDER: The White African WILLARD, Theodore Arthur: The City of the Sacred Well: Being a Narrative of the Discoveries and Excavations of Edwsard Herbert Thompson in the Ancient City of Chi-Chen Itza...(NY, G&D, 1926) WILLARD, T.A.: The City of the Sacred Well WILLIAM, Prince of Sweden: Among Pigmies and Gorillas WILLIAMS, Frank The Harbor of Doubt WILLIAMS: Harbor of Doubt WILLIAMSON, C.N. & A.M. The Lady from the Air WILLIS: Living Africa WILSON, Harry Leon Merton of the Movies WILSON, Harry Leon Oh, Doctor WILSON, Harry Leon Ruggles of Red Gap WILSON: Ruggles of Red Gap WILSON, Harry Leon Somewhere in Red Gap WILSON: Somewhere in Red Gap WILSON, John Fleming Somewhere at Sea WILSON: Somewhere at Sea Wine recipe for grape wine...inside American Scientific. WINTER, William: Vagrant Memories: Being further recollections of other days WISTER, Owen Lady Baltimore WISTER, Owen Lin McLean WISTER, Owen ~ Lin McClean WISTER: Lin McLean WISTER, Owen. Lin McLean. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1898. WISTER, Owen. Red Men and White. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1896. WISTER ~ Red Men and White - C7 - Remington Illustrations Harper 1896 WISTER, Owen Red Men and White WISTER, Owen: The Pentacost of Calamity WISTER: Red Men and White WITEVER, H. C. From Baseball to Boches WITWER: From Baseball to Boches WODEHOUSE, Pelham Grenville A damsel in Distress WOOD, Eric The Boy's Book of Buccaneers WOOD: Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs ~ Cited by ERB as a resource used in his writing of the Apache novels WRIGHT, A Percivil ~ Mammalia ~ 1883 not Ed's book plate. WRIGHT, Harold Bell Helen of the Old House WYMAN: Geneologies & Estates (2 volumes) WYMAN, Thomas Bellows: Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 162901818. Boston, Clapp, 1877 2 vols. |
| Olive Wadsley 1859-1959 |
| Almond Blossom ~ 1921 ~ A.L. Burt
Other:
  
The Forgotten Wedding ~ The Cavalier [v31 #1, July 19, 1913] ed. Anon. (Frank A. Munsey, 10¢, pulp) The Forgotten Wedding [Part 2 of 4] · Olive Wadsley ~ The Cavalier [v31 #2, July 26, 1913] ed. Anon. (Frank A. Munsey, 10¢, pulp) The Forgotten Wedding [Part 3 of 4] · Olive Wadsley ~ The Cavalier [v31 #3, August 2, 1913] ed. Anon. (Frank A. Munsey, 10¢, pulp) The Forgotten Wedding [Part 4 of 4] Olive Wadsley ~ The Cavalier [v31 #4, August 9, 1913] ed. Anon. (Frank A. Munsey, 10¢, pulp) Essentials · Olive Wadsley ~ The All-Story [v 24 #4, December 1912] (10¢, standard)
Film Adaptations: Stolen Hours 1918 During a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues Hugh Carton, a member of the English Parliament and a candidate for the Cabinet. Hugh gratefully offers Diana a position as his sister's companion, and soon, the two fall desperately in love. Diana's happiness is threatened, however, when she learns that Hugh is married to a woman who will neither live with him nor divorce him. Diana becomes Hugh's mistress for a time, but his afternoon visits with her cause him to neglect his work. To save Hugh's career, his sister urges Diana to leave him, whereupon the unhappy girl returns to her father. She eventually accepts the marriage proposal of her old friend, Phil Duran, but before the wedding, she suffers a breakdown. When Hugh visits her with the news that his wife has granted him a divorce, however, she regains her health and good spirits, and is joined to the man she loves. In
Every Woman's Life 1924 (novel "Belonging")
Filmography
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| John Walker |
Walker's Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language (revised ed.)
~ 1936 ~ Dutton Book. 1936 549 pages ~ (First published in 1775)
 There
are actually two types of rhyming dictionary. The oldest, such as Walker's
Rhyming Dictionary, simply list words in reverse alphabetical order. These
often do rhyme, as in 'node' and 'mode', but of course having a similarly
spelt ending is no guarantee — consider 'cough' and 'bough'. Nor do all
rhyming words necessarily have similarly spelt endings, so such rhymes
as 'cake' and 'ache' won't show up. Modern rhyming dictionaries usually
consist of two parts: an alphabetical list of words, and a list of words
grouped according to their rhyming properties. This is probably the only
rhyming dictionary around that is better for sight rhymes than phonetic
ones. Its real value comes from not caring about rhymes at all, but instead
looking for words with similar suffixes, eg all the -ism's, or when you
don't remember the first letter(s), such as perhaps 'pneumatic'. |
| Edgar Wallace (Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace) (1875 - 1932) |
| Great Stories of Real Life (a non-fiction book with William le Queux)
Island Life A King by Night Mexican Sierras 
Other: Sanders of the River The People of the River Bosambo of the River King Kong: Wallace died on February 10, 1932, en route to Hollywood to work on the screenplay for King Kong. The Clue of the Twisted Candle: eText: http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext01/clotc10.txt Filmography |
 Richard
Horatio Edgar Wallace (King Kong creator) was born in Greenwich,
1 April 1875, and was brought up as an adopted child in the family of Dick
Freeman, a London fish porter. His parents were actors, Polly Richards
and Richard Horatio Edgar Marriott, who used the false name of Walter Wallace
on the birth records. Young Wallace left school at the age of 12, and took
menial jobs before enlisting at the age of 18 in the Army, serving in the
Royal West Kent Regiment from 1893 to 1896. "He was strictly brought
up by parents who compelled him to read books on Sunday that were entirely
devoted to orphans and good organ-grinders and little girls who quoted
extensively from precious books, and died surrounded by weeping negroes.
In such literature the villains of the piece were young scoundrels who
surreptitiously threw away their crusts and only ate crumb part of bread;
desperadoes who kicked dogs, and threw large flies into spider's
webs, and watched the spider at his fell work with glee." (from Double
Dan, 1924) In 1896 Wallace was sent to South Africa, where he was in the
Medical Staff Corps. During this period he met the Reverend William Shaw
Caldecott and Mrs. Marion Caldecott, who was a writer and willing to help
Wallace in his writing aspirations. Wallace he began to contribute to various
journals, and wrote war poems, later collected in THE MISSION THAT FAILED
(1898) and other volumes.After his discharge in 1899, Wallace became a
correspondent for Reuters and the London Daily Mail. His reports about
Horatio Herbert Kitchnerer infuriated the influential British fieldmarshal
and Wallace was banned as a war correspondent until World War I. In 1901
he married Ivy Caldecott; they were divorced in 1918. Wallace served in
1902 as the editor of the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg before returning
to London. During the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) Wallace was sent by
the Daily Mail to Vigo to examine a conflict in which the Russians opened
fire on a British fishing fleet in the belief that it was the Japanese
Navy. During this period he learned about the activities of Russian and
English spies operating around the coasts of Spain and Portugal. Later
Wallace returned to world of secret agents in his stories, although he
mostly concentrated on crime and detective books. His most famous spy story,
Code No. 2, first appeared in the Stand Magazine of April 1916, then in
various collections and anthologies.Wallace's first novel, THE FOUR JUST
MEN, appeared in 1905, and was published by his own Tallis Press. It told
a story about a group who take the law into their own hands. Although the
book was a huge success, Wallace lost money on it because of an unlucky
publicity gimmick. It was not until the publication of SANDERS OF THE RIVER
(1911), about an African representative of Great Britain Foreign Office,
when his fame as a writer was established. Wallace then wrote several additional
stories using his African experiences as background. His attitudes reflect
uncritically popular opinions of the time - later simply named "imperialist
ideology". In the stories about Bosambo, a devious tribal king, Mr. Commissioner
Sanders loses often the battle of wits, although Bosambo in one scene tells
that he has always wanted to be a chief under the British rule. However,
he manages to steal Sanders's binoculars. Sanders's method to keep up peace
is simple: he uses whip and he has a reputation for hanging rebellious
chiefs.Wallace worked in the 1900s and 1910s in several journals, among
them Daily Mail (1903-1907), Standard (1910), The Week-End Racing Supplment
(1910-12), Evening News (1910-1912), The Story Journal (1913), Town Topics
(1913-16). He was later a racing columnist for The Star (1927-32) and Daily
Mail (1930-32). During World War I Wallace was a special interrogator for
the War Office. In 1921 he married his secretary and second wife, Violet
King, who was twenty-three years younger than himself, and with whom he
had one daughter. THE GREEN ARCHER (1923) is one of the most famous novels
of Wallace. It is a story about a man who is found murdered after a quarrel
with the owner of a ghost-haunted castle. It was filmed at least three
times. The critic and awarded mystery writer H.R.F. Keating included THE
MIND OF MR J.G. REEDER (1925) among the 100 best crime and mystery books
ever published (Crime & Mystery: the 100 Best Books, 1987). Mr Reeder
works for the office of the Public Prosecutor, he is "something over fifty,
a long-faced gentleman with sandy-grey hair and a slither of side whiskers
that mercifully distracted attention from his large outstanding ears."
Supernatural themes do not appear very often in Wallace's works. Spiritualism
and ghosts are dealt in such short stories as Death Watch, filmed in 1933
with Warner Oland, The Ghost of John Holling, filmed in 1934, and The Ghost
of Down Hill, later adapted in the sixties for the Edgar Wallace Mystery
Theatre series. Wallace wrote his works at a prodigious pace, among others
one of his most popular plays, ON THE SPOT (1931), was finished in four
days. His autobiography, EDGAR WALLACE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PHENOMENON,
appeared in 1926. At the highest peak of Wallace's career in the 1920s,
one of his numerous publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read
in England was written by him. Most of Wallace's novels were spoken into
a dictaphone, typed up by his wife or a secretary, and then corrected.
His skill in creating lively dialogue was noted by film makers who used
eagerly his texts for films. Wallace also wrote screenplays - among other
some dialogue The Hound of Baskervilles (1931), directed by V. Gareth Gundrey.
Wallace earned extremely well from his writings, but he lost fortunes because
of his extravagant lifestyle and obsessive betting on the wrong horses.
Wallace's literary estate was not profitable until 1934. Hundreds of films
have been made from his novels and short stories, also plays and television
series in England (1959) and Germany (1959), where the series of Wallace
adaptations became the nation's most popular screen entertainment. In 1960
Jack Greenwood produced in England a series of short screen adaptations
for British and American television use under the title Edgar Wallace Mystery
Theater. Towards the end of his life, Wallace estimated that his work as
a playwright was more important than his work as a writer of stories. It
was largely the success of the plays - THE CALENDAR (1929), On the Spot,
and THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY (1931) - which led to his being invited
to Hollywood to work as a scriptwriter. Just before departing for the United
States, he stood as an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in Blackpool. Wallace
died on February 10, 1932, en route to Hollywood to work on the screenplay
for King Kong. Although Wallace received screen credit, he did no actual
work on the film. Ivy Wallace died fourteen months after her husband's
death.
[from: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ewallace.htm] BIBLIO http://www.dipmat.unipg.it/~bartocci/gial/ewfilmogr.htm http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Edgar_Wallace.htm Official Site: http://www.edgarwallace.org/ An ERBzine Reference
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| War Department |
Basic Field Manual - Paper Pamphlets by War Dept. ~ July 23,
1941?
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| Andrew Henshaw Ward |
| A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon
Edmund Rice, Who Came from Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury,
MA, in 1638 or 9 written in 1858 by Andrew Henshaw Ward ~
388 total pages.
Andrew was born
on 26 May 1784 in Shrewsbury, MA. He died on 18 Feb 1864 in Newtonville,
MA.
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| Margaret Warde |
| Betty Wales & Co ~ G&D
Betty Wales B. A. Betty Wales Decides Betty Wales Freshman Betty Wales Junior Betty Wales on Campus Betty Wales Senior Betty Wales Sophomore: A Story for Girls "Delightful stories of the beloved and warm-hearted American college girl -- from her entrance, to graduation and afterward." This 10 volume series, written by Edith K. Dunton under the Margaret Warde pseudonym, was originally published by Penn between 1904 and 1917. Subsequent reprints were available from Grosset & Dunlap.   
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| Water World |
The Water World ~ 1886 ~ Union World Publishers
  
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| Shirley Watkins |
Nancy of Paradise Cottage 1921 Goldsmith Everygirl Series
of three books
   
Other Jane Lends a Hand 1923 Goldsmith Everygirl Series 250 pages. Everygirl's Series of tales "that are both fascinatingly real and touched with romance", featuring North Carolina heroine, Jane saving the family bakery. Georgina Finds Herself Goldsmith Everygirl Series |
| Homer A. Watt and James B. Munn |
Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature ~ 1925
 
Other: Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature: Volume II - Drama and Prose ~ 1932 |
| Henry Kitchell Webster 1875 - 1932 |
| Real Life
The Innocents 1924 345 pages The innocents of this tale are a father and son, Edward and Ed Patterson, who live together, share common experiences, and suffer similar disappointments, yet persist in mutual misunderstandings throughout most of the novel. Young Ed is absorbed in his study of radio and electronics to the obvious detriment of his school work. His father, an accountant for an insurance company, is aware of his own failure in providing adequately for his family, and is particularly severe with the lad for the boy's failure in school. Parallel love affairs lead the pair to a closer relationship than they have ever experienced, although it is through the efforts of the son rather than the father that the understanding grows. Young Ed's fascination with electronics provides an excellent view of early radio communication. Set in Lakeside, a Chicago suburb, around 1923, the action in The Innocents precedes by only a few weeks Webster's later novel The Beginners. Other:
Film: The Real Adventure:
MOVIE
COMPANY IS MAROONED Florence Vidor's company left for Bear valley
last week, arrived O.K.--and stuck. At last accounts it was marooned
in the middle of a trackless snow desert hid up in the mountains.
Its whereabouts were learned at the nearest point of approach by signal
fires which were made, and General Manager Gus Inglis left with a dog team
and all the snowshoes that could be gathered together. As it is impossible
to reach the party otherwise the snowshoes will be dropped from an
airplane...In the marooned movie party are Florence Vidor and King Vidor,
her husband and director; Clyde Fillmore, leading man; David Howard,
assistant director; George Barnes and Ed Roberts, cameramen, and
other technical workers. Fortunately the party has a good supply
of food an an experienced cook and is in a neighborhood where there is
a plentiful supply of wood for fuel. The Vidors are filming "The
Real Adventure" by Henry Kitchell Webster, and some of the story calls
for rugged snowstorm scenes, which they will surely get.
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Thoroughbred: 1917 The "thoroughbred' referred to in the title, is
actually the main character of the book...a young wife, who struggles
to understand and help her husband in his new career. Bobbs-Merrill Company,
Indianapolis.