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PIRATES OF VENUS
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
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About This Item
[EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS]. PIRATES OF VENUS. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, CA., 1934. First Edition, First printing. Book Condition: VG+. Appears barely read, in original publisher's pebbled blue cloth with red type, publisher's original red top-stain, map to rear endpapers /pastedown, minor rubbing to extremities, hinge just slightly starting at title page, a few erasable pencil marks of to read list of ERB book titles advert page at the end of the book, else pages are clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. With the original $2.00 price on the spine, advertisements of the books Tarzan and the City of Gold on the rear panel and Apache Devil on the inner flap, just a few creases near folds, micro-chips to extremities of the inner flaps, in professional collector's plastic sleeve, a scarce original jacket in this near fine to about fine condition. Not a facsimile or reproduction dust jacket. Neat previous owner's bookplate on first pastedown from private library collection, some trivial near invisible scuffs offset on ffep from glue of bookplate. First appearance in the pulp magazine Argosy Weekly in 1932, this is the first novel in the five book Carson Napier of Venus saga. Frontispiece and four interior plates illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Classic ERB science fiction fantasy adventure novel, collectible. 314 pgs. 8vo.
Synopsis
Pirates of Venus is the first book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the last major series in Burroughs's career. It was first serialized in six parts in Argosy in 1932 and published in book form two years later. The novel is set on a fictional version of planet Venus called Amtor that has similarities to Barsoom, Burroughs's fictionalized version of planet Mars.
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- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-1029
- Title
- PIRATES OF VENUS
- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Illustrator
- J. Allen St. John
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Tarzana, CA.
- Date Published
- 1934
- Pages
- 314
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. Allen St. John, Carson Napier of Venus
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Pulp Fiction;
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