Carson of Venus

312+[1 ad] pages with six inserted plates, including frontispiece, by John Coleman Burroughs. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge. Inscribed dand signed. (The present inscription is illustrated in Zeuschner's Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography (2016) on page 50) Accompanied by a letter of authenticity signed by Linda Burroughs, wife of Danton Burroughs, who was the son of John Coleman (Jack) Burroughs, and grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs. First edition.

PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED on the front free endpaper recto by the author to his son, who illustrated this book, three weeks before publication: "To Jack with oceans of love from one artist to another, O.B. Jan 21, 1939." The author has drawn an arrow from the "ocean" in the inscription to the "ocean" in the map illustration on the endpapers; he has also drawn a small illustration of a hand pointing from the "artist" in the inscription to the illustrated map endpapers. Edgar Rice Burroughs drew the illustrated endpaper maps, and his son, John Coleman Burroughs, illustrated the book.

Carson of Venus is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"). Burroughs wrote the novel in July and August 1937. It was serialized in 1938 in six weekly installments from January 8 to February 12 in Argosy, the same publication where the previous two Venus novels appeared. It was published in book form a year later from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Burroughs originally submitted the novel to a number of the "slick" magazines: Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and Ladies' Home Journal. All rejected the story.

Condition: Touch of edgewear to binding. Dust jacket unclipped ($2.00), minor edgewear and a few small chips and tears, spine panel sunned, front flap with a few creases else near fine in like jacket.