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Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Ace Books, Inc., New York, 1939.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light edgewear with a small tear in front, bottom spine edge. Book cocked. Light wear. Very light soiling. Pre-printed price on front cover is .40.
Seller: Book Nook, Cadillac, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Ace Books, New York, 1939.
Price: US$7.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover Little Worn, Ace-F-247.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson Of Venus (Venus 3). Ace Science Fiction Classic 0920, 1939.
Price: US$12.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean and tight copy. Light tanning to pages.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -. Carson Of Venus - F-247. Ace Publishing -, 1939.
Price: US$15.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Gd. condition/Classic Science Fiction - (SF30A)
Seller: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good, plus some. Not far removed from Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: Ace Books, Inc., publication date not given, but 1960's; 1939 (copyright). Ace # 09201, a very early printing of Ace's paperback first edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Carson of Venus'. 16mo, perfect-bound wraps illustrated at the cover by Frank Frazetta, 192 pp. A very strong Very Good, and not far from Near Fine. Certainly never read. Moderate age-toning to the pages, faint soil at top right, rear cover, and two thin apparent creases at spine, but these are superficial and not pronounced. See scans. Third novel in the Venus Series, and one which in timely fashion satirized the Axis forces then feeling their oats in Europe near the outset of World War II. See all scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L47
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, Tarzana, CA, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Smaller octavo. Light brown cloth covered boards and spine with brown lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has plenty of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine with a series of 1/8" closed tears in the head. Fair amount of bumping at the tips of the two lower outside corners with a trace of accompanying rubbing . Cream colored endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Cream colored pages are all clean and crisp. 312 pages. Tight and clean, but no dust jacket present.
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1939.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early printing, good + hardcover (no dust jacket) shows soiling and staining to covers, rubbing to covers and cover edges with light fray tear at spine edges near tail, along with some other mild wear including a rub spot at contents page. 312 pages. Says its illustrated by john Coleman Burroughs but I cannot find any illustrations. Solid copy of this 3rd installment in the Venus series.
Seller: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, U.S.A.
Burroughs Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$42.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first ed. no dj
Seller: antikvariat sacher, Malmö, SKÅNE, Sweden
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Carson of Venus. Ace Books, New York, 1939.
Price: US$45.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ace 09202. Some discoloration to pages. Some wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Some rubbing wear to covers.
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a near fine or better, unmarked, hardcover copy, 1948 reprint in gray textile like binding with blue lettering on the cover & spine, top edge tinted blue. With the John Coleman Burroughs frontispiece. In a mylar protected DJ that has a tape closed nip, brownish spine. Lists to Carson of Venus on the rear flap. A lovely copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 312 pages. Small 8vo. No illustrations in this edition except for the dust jacket. Not a first edition. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar sleeve. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, a 1" chip on the front panel, and a stain on the rear panel. Book is tight, square, and very clean. No former owner's names or marks.
Seller: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1939.
Price: US$69.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 312pp. Very good lightly edgeworn dust jacket. One small closed tear at the front fold. In mylar protector. Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. A very nice copy.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a fine unmarked, hardcover copy, 1948 reprint in gray textile like binding with blue lettering on the cover & spine, top edge tinted blue. With the John Coleman Burroughs frontispiece. In a fine mylar protected DJ brownish spine. Lists to Carson of Venus on the rear flap. A lovely copy, photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Ex-library copy with "discard" stamped on endpaper, flap from dustwrapper glued on free endpaper, tape repair to first few pages including frontis piece, rear endpaper removed, plate removed from page 24, remaining three plates taped, fair only, lacking the dustwrapper. An ugly copy of the first edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. CARSON OF VENUS. Ace, 1939.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: BooksByLisa, Highland Park, IL, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice.. CARSON OF VENUS.. Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$97.75 + shipping
Description: 7.75 x 5, boards, 312 pp, endpapers a bit yellowed, top of spine lightly frayed else ok in slightly used dw. This is the 1948 printing, without any illustr.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-312 [313: ads] [314-318: blank] [last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue cloth, front and spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. ". the third and by far the finest book in the series [of Venus novels]." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 298-302. Heins CV-1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Some age toning to text block, spine darkened, a good to very good copy in a fine later state (non-laminated) dust jacket. (31165)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copyright 1939, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Like new, appears unread, unclipped and not remaindered. The interior is clean, unmarked excepting a small faded blue stamp, “1B100” to the rear pastedown. Clean reddish brown titles to the front board and spine. Purple stain to the top edge. Corners are sharp and square, Unpaginated fore-edge. Small “ding’ to the top edge has slightly bent a handful of pages. Unclipped dustjacket has two short tears to the bottom edge of the rear panel, 5mm deep chipping to the head of the spine, just touching the title, 1.5cm chip to the bottom edge of the front wrap near the spine, some bumping to extremities, bit of soiling and shelfwear to show. Good condition and it is complete. Presents nicely in archival brodart jacket. Bright, vibrant colours to the outstanding John Coleman Burroughs illustration to the front wrap.
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, AB, Canada
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, Tarzana, CA, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Smaller octavo. Blue buckram covered boards and spine with orange lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the outside corners with light accompanying rubbing also in each place. Map endpapers with Amtor. Binding is straight and still tight. Light cream colored pages are all clean and crisp. 312 pages. Red publisher's topstain. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Dust Jacket - Top 3/4" and bottom 3/4" of the dust jacket has been chipped away. 3/4" chip in the tips of the two front outside corners and a 1/4" chip in the tip of each of the two rear outside corners. Fair amoung of rubbing alon gthe upper and lower edges with light accompanying wrinkles in a few places. Chip in the upper edge of the rear cover near the head of the spine is about 1 1/2" long and 3/4" deep at its deepest point. Light overall evidence of handling over time. Please inquire for images of parts of the book not shown among those we provide. Third book in Burroughs's Venus series.
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Frontispiece by John Coleman Burroughs. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned and foxed at the spine, chips and tears at the edges, including a longer closed tear at the rear. Blue buckram with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, lightly foxed. The third novel in the Venus series.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a near fine, unmarked, hardcover first edition, blue pebble binding with orange lettering, tinted top edge, 312 pages, 6 John Coleman plates. With a 4/24/39 notation on the front flyleaf which I take to be the acquisition date. In a fine mylar protected DJ, with a 2.00 flap price, Really nice, with the John Coleman Burroughs color image, white spine. Good enough for the collector.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Burroughs, edgar rice. CARSON OF VENUS. burroughs 1939, 1939.
Price: US$231.00 + shipping
Description: blue binding, dirty, rubbed book, dust jacket has internal color bleed, outside looks fine with large light damp stain causing bleeding thru. dark spine on the book
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; VGVG; white spine, blue/red text; jacket has protective mylar cover, rubbing, slight edgewear, price clipped on front flap; boards are strong, sun toning around edges and front of jacket; textblock has age toning, some staining on endpapers and back pastedown, small closed tear at head edge of page 279, otherwise very clean; pp 312; FLP Collection; shelved in case 8. 1284164. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-312 [313: ads] [314-318: blank] [last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue cloth, front and spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. ". the third and by far the finest book in the series [of Venus novels]." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 298-302. Heins CV-1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A very good to nearly fine copy in a very good first state (laminated) dust jacket with wear at the upper front corner and head of spine panel with a little fraying, 12 mm closed tear to upper front panel, color fade to spine panel of red ink to yellow. (28915)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice.. Carson of Venus.. California; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1939., 1939.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 312, [1] adverts. Monochrome frontispiece and 5 further plates. Publisher's electric blue cloth with red titles to spine and upper board and red hunter motif to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket; red upper edges and mapped endpapers. Very light sunning to upper board edges and spine; jacket shows very slight creasing to spine tail and small areas of surface loss to edges. Overall a very clean copy; FIRST EDITION, with first state jacket, of Burrough's third novel in the Venus series. A rip-roaring adventure in which Earth man, Carson Napier, must battle sea monsters and the living dead to rescue his beloved princess on Venus. Brought to life with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, Edgar Rice's son.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs (First Edition) Heavy fading to spine. Some light staining to boards. Spine cracked. Bright facsimile jacket in clear protective cover. First Edition, stated. A Carson Napier of Venus story. FAX DJ.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Burroughs, edgar rice. CARSON OF VENUS. burroughs 1939, 1939.
Price: US$289.00 + shipping
Description: blue binding, very good - fine dirty book with mint dust jacket , faint moisture marks on the lower front and rear of the book
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc Publishers, Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Heins CV-1. Blue binding with orange lettering/decoration, top edge stained reddish-orange as issued, 312+ pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 other black-and-white plates plus map endpapers. The third book in the Venus series. Good only copy with spine cocked, binding worn, 2 inch closed tear to the title page, in Fine [brillant as new] Dust Wrapper [non-laminated state] with light, shallow creasing to the spine heel. [This copy is priced primarily to reflect the condition of the Dust Wrapper].lrbkcs1/1E
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Carson of Venus. E.R. Burroughs, inc, E-284, 1939.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, CA. 1939. 312 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and a tape repairs present to the rear panel. Bound in blue cloth boards with red titles. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The novel, which was written two years before the outbreak of World War II, satirizes Nazi Germany by including a fascist political faction called the "Zani." There is also a character named "Muso" as a reference to Benito Mussolini. Unlike the first two Venus novels, Carson of Venus focuses on spy intrigue and war instead of wilderness adventuring. It also indicates a change of political orientation from that of the earlier books, where the villains were modeled on Russian Communists. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, CA, 1939.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A stated 1st edition ( blue cloth w/red lettering) of the 3rd of Burroughs' Venus novels. The DJ illustration and 6 interior plates are by Burroughs' son - John Coleman Burroughs. Bright and sharp 1st state laminated DJ ($2.00 price intact on the front flap) with some mild wrinkling to the fore edge of the front & rear flaps. The book has wear along the top edges with some loss at the top of the spine. The spine is lightly faded. A very good or better copy of a hard to find ERB, Inc 1st.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Carson Of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1939.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket $2.00 On Flap.Stated First Edition. Gorgeous Fresh Copy Of This Burroughs Classic. Scarce In This Condition.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-312 [313: ads] [314-318: blank] [last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue cloth, front and spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. ". the third and by far the finest book in the series [of Venus novels]." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 298-302. Heins CV-1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Inked name and date to front free paste down (hidden by front flap), a fine copy in a nearly fine first state (laminated) dust jacket with a 15 mm closed tear to the upper front panel and color fade to spine panel of red ink of title lettering and emblem to yellow. (31217)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ed.; book is fine and bright, with previous owner's name; DJ is bright and near fine with just the slightest of wear.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first edition. Hardcover, bound in pebbled blue cloth with dust jacket. Very light edge-wear, slight push one fore-corner.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-312 [313: ads] [314-318: blank] [last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue cloth, front and spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. ". the third and by far the finest book in the series [of Venus novels]." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 298-302. Heins CV-1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in a nearly fine first state (laminated) dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear to the head of the spine panel, orange ink of title lettering and design on spine panel a bit faded. (24853)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, CA, 1939.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 312 pp. Illustrated. cloth in dustwrapper, like new. (39018). Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. CARSON OF VENUS. Burroughs, 1939.
Price: US$595.98 + shipping
Description: CARSON OF VENUS, Burroughs, 1939, first edition, some minor abrasions to the f.e.p., else fine in bright very fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$640.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition/first printing, blue pebbled cloth with red lettering on front cover and spine in about Fine condition, light bumping to tips in alike, first state (laminated) dust-jacket. Zeuschner 70; Adventure! Love! Romance! You will find all these and more twenty-six million miles from Broadway, twenty-six million miles from all the cares and worries of everyday life. (from the dust-jacket) ; 8vo; [iv], [4], 5-312, [6] pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, CA, 1939.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A stated 1st edition (bright & sharp blue cloth w/red lettering) of the 3rd of Burroughs' Venus novels. The DJ illustration and 6 interior plates are by Burroughs' son - John Coleman Burroughs. Bright and sharp 1st state laminated DJ ($2.00 price intact on the front flap). The book The book is clean & crisp. A particularly nice copy of a hard to find ERB, Inc 1st.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Carson of Venus. Tarzana Burroughs 1939, 1939.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Near fine copy in a fine bright and crisp as new dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and 5 and white plates 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, illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. (Currey p. 87; Heins CV 1 (V3); Zeuschner 70) First edition. This is third novel in the Venus series. The Amtor or Venus Series is a science fantasy series consisting of four novels and one novelette written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It is sometimes known as the Carson Napier of Venus Series, after its main character, Carson Napier. Napier attempted a solo voyage to Mars, but, because of mistaken navigational calculations, he finds himself heading toward the planet Venus instead. The novels, part of the Sword and Planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus, called Amtor by its human-like inhabitants. Unlike Barsoom, the desert planet of Mars, these stories are set upon a waterworld like Earth. Most of the events of the series take place on the island of Vepaja, the kingdom of Korva on the island of Anlap, and the city-states of Havatoo and Kormor on the tropical continent north of Vepaja. As is common in Burroughs' works, the hero is bold and daring, and quickly wins the heart of the Vepajan princess (or janjong) Duare, though class prejudices long inhibit her from expressing her love. Napier meets many varied peoples, including the Vepajans, refugees from an overthrown empire; the Thorists, thinly disguised communists who ran the Vepajans out of what is now the Thoran empire; pirates; the super-scientific eugenicists of Havatoo; the zombies of Kormor; the fascistic Zanis of Korva; and the hideous Cloud People. In the course of his adventures within the series, Napier becomes a pirate (twice), escapes from the dread Room of the Seven Doors, and is finally made a prince, or tanjong, of Korva after the overthrow of the Zanis. Napier also rescues princesses from incomparable dangers innumerable times. Condition: Near fine.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, 1939.
Price: US$765.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, so stated on the copyright page; in original jacket. Publisher's pebbled blue cloth with the front and spine lettered in red, top edge stained red. Dust jacket and six interior illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, end paper maps by the author. Heins V3-1. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (1939), 312 pps. A Fine bright, tight and square copy with modest edge wear. Fine un-clipped ($2.00) laminate state jacket with modest edge wear, some fading to spine, creased top front flap fold. From the "Astonishing Edgar Rice Burroughs collection" of Howard Frank. "Almost every copy in best available condition", in original jackets, many signed.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. CARSON OF VENUS .. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, California, 1939.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-312 [313: ads] [314-318: blank] [last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue cloth, front and spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. ". the third and by far the finest book in the series [of Venus novels]." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 298-302. Heins CV-1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in fine first state (laminated) dust jacket. A very sharp copy. This copy is signed by Florence Gilbert Burroughs, the dedicatee, and presented to a Burroughs Bibliophile by "his friend" Eddie Gilbert, on the dedication page. (#151449)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-312 [313: ads] [314-318: blank] [last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue cloth, front and spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. Inscribed and signed by Burroughs on the front free end paper. ". the third and by far the finest book in the series [of Venus novels]." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 298-302. Heins CV-1. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Small discoloration spot to upper rear cover, a fine copy in a fine first state (laminated) dust jacket. (31170)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. CARSON OF VENUS. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1939.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS]. CARSON OF VENUS. WWII U.S. NAVY MILITARY ASSOCIATION COPY. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, California, 1939. First Edition, First printing. Book Condition: Very Good+. Appears barely read, in original publisher's blue pebbled cloth lettered stamped in red, top edge red, maps to endpapers, rubbing to edges, scattered soiling, light scuffs to faded cloth board covers else pages are clean, bright and binding tight. Print run: 3,500, scarce thus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not price clipped with the original $2.00 on upper inner flap, faint crease to inner flap, scarce original first state laminated dust jacket new old stock uncirculated printed in 1939 by ERB, Inc., in professional collector Brodart plastic sleeve. A magnificent copy with well preserved pristine original dust jacket and with WWII association. Hand signed and inscribed by Edgar Rice Burroughs on the front endpaper to Captain Robert Joseph Coontz Navy Commander (U.S.S. Wedderburn) the grandson of Admiral Robert Edward Coontz (U.S.S. Seattle). Admiral Coontz was only the second U.S. Navy Admiral Commander in Chief (1919-1923). Captain 'Bobby' J. Coontz was a collector of science fiction and fantasy books, this is a newly discovered book signed by ERB to Captain Coontz when he was a young boy during the early years of WWII. The U.S.S. Coontz destroyer, which served during the Vietnam War, was named after Admiral R.E. Coontz. Signed ERB first editions are scarce and this book remained virtually unknown to the public at the Coontz estate for over three-quarters of a century. Includes laid in signed typed letter (TLS) dated 1923 from Admiral Robert E. Coontz to Marion C. Deane, a well known autograph collector. Carson of Venus is considered the finest of Burroughs' Venus novels. Heins V3.1. First appearance in pulp fiction magazine Argosy Weekly in January, 1938. Cover art on jacket by John Coleman Burroughs and interior art illustrated with six interior drawings including frontispiece. Not a facsimile dust jacket, not a mechanical auto-pen signature, not ex-library and not remainder marked. As of this writing this is the only known ERB book of this title on the market signed to a high ranking maritime military family by the author. Scarce signed WWII Navy association copy from Edgar Rice Burroughs. 312 pgs. 8vo.
Seller: Astro Trader Books IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.