From ERB to Me..

According to the hit counter on the right The Record Rack clicked over 1000 views (while on my Post Stats it says 993.. whatever) and rolled back to 100 at 7.40pm this Sunday evening, just as Kaspar and I had finished watching the doco on TVS about Richard Blackie - now deceased toy collector  and certainly an 'interesting person'. Here's to a fantastic collector who's hopefully doing Moondances with his idol in The Great Cereal Bowl in The Sky...

As a special treat to thank those who have viewed this blog since the start of this year, I will now show one very momentous piece of opshop find that I stumbled upon probably 10 years ago in Randwick (I can't recall it's name at the moment but was named after a famous charitable bloke)...

Being a ERB reader since early teens I almost fell thru the cluttered saucepan shelf after picking up this battered hardbound canvas covered throwaway..

Upon opening it revealed a bound collection of The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine from March 1929 to March 1930 featuring  '"TANAR" A New Novel by the Author of "TARZAN"'.

Curiously only the feature ERB story had been bound along with each month's covers, to be read as an entire novel. Tanar only runs to the October 1929 issue and is followed by 'The New "TARZAN" Story' - Tarzan at the Earth's Core, continuing the Pellucidor theme.

The last page declares that the next issue "begins a wholly different but no less fascinating novel which again reveals the splendid creative imagination of the author of Tarzan" - The Fighting Man of Mars. With John Carter being my favourite ERB creation I am in hope that one day I will find that next volume and that it will not cost me more than the $2 paid for this one (not likely)..

August issue was not included as it appears not to start the Tarzan story until Sept issue..

er.. I seemed not to have photographed October issue cover but it was in there (I'll post it later), and put out of order after Nov..

It's hard to guess the providence on this item and the only additional writing in it is a pencil $40 price on the inside cover and a T/N $20.00. There are no descriptive titling on the outside or spine which makes me think that this was an object of delight for an early collector/fan of ERB. I'm sure they would have been pleased it fell into the hands of another..