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THE GODS OF MARS
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS]. THE GODS OF MARS. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, circa 1920 (1918). Reprint. Condition: G+. Appears gently read, in original publisher's green cloth with black titles on green-olive background, soiling to covers, binding slightly shaken, a few crinkles in the front cloth cover, fraying, rubbing to corner extremities, foxing throughout page edges, else pages are generally clean, unmarked and binding good. Neat previous owners bookplate on first pastedown from private library collection, previous owner inscription in pencil recto frontispiece and partial bookstore label on rear pastedown. Lacking only the scarce dust jacket. One of the earliest reprints of The Gods of Mars from G&D publishers. First appearance in the 1913 issue of pulp magazine The All-Story. Frontispiece illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. Classic ERB fantasy science fiction adventure novel, collectible. 348 pgs. 8vo.
Synopsis
After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars--an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-1013
- Title
- THE GODS OF MARS
- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Illustrator
- Frank E. Schoonover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 348
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Frank E. Schoonover, John Carter of Mars
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Pulp Fiction; Fantasy;
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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