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Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Ace F179, 1934.
Price: US$6.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.78 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some rubbing to the cover and tanning to pages. Noticeable creases towards the spine and on spine. Otherwise, good condition.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, CA, 1934.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Light gray hardboards, with brown titling on spine and front. Edge worn, edge chipped. Library discard from public library with internal and external marks. Book has slight spine lean, and dampmarking (NOT rippling) on rear. Despite flaws, this is a solid copy, clean text. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 314 pages
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1934.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages are yellowed but free of markings; pp. 192-257 are darkened more than the remaining pages. Boards are bumped at extremities. Price-clipped dust jacket is yellowed and lightly soiled overall and worn at edges, with one 1/2" x 2" area of loss and several small tears.
Seller: Foliobooks, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Burroughs Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Grosset & Dunlap, 1934.
Price: US$31.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early Grosset and Dunlap reprint
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$31.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear, lacking dj. Name of former owner to the ffep. Pages clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, tanning, and staining, two inches at the top of the spine missing. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6th hardcover edition. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows heavy wear, chipping, rubbing, and tanning, such that 1/3rd of the front wrap is missing. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reprint edition circa 1948. Good book with edge wear and rubbing to edges and corners, light soiling and spotting to boards, mild offsetting and some soiling to paste downs and end pages, water staining to top page edges. NO dust jacket; however a new, Mark Terry, facsimile jacket has been added to this copy to enhance books presentation.
Seller: Squid Ink Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Grosset & Dunlap, 1934.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOT an ex library book. Book with red cloth binding. 314 pages.
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. PIRATES OF VENUS. Grosset & Dunlap: NY, 1934.
Price: US$74.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontis and three full-page illus. by J. Allen St. John, 7.5 x 5", red cloth, 314pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, bottom of textblock stained, pp toned, in a rubbed, soiled and extremity-worn dustjacket with 75 cent price on front flap.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, Tarzana, CA, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Smaller octavo. Bright red cloth covered boards and spine with glossy blue lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has a fair amount of bumping at the head and tail of the spine with just the faintest accompanying rubbing. Book has light rubbing at the extreme tips of the two lower outside corners - inner board just beginning to peek out a the very tip of the lower front outside corner. Cream colored endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Cream colored pages are all clean and crisp. 314 pages. Tight and clean, but no dust jacket present.
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. TARZAN AND THE LION MAN. Grosset & Dunlap (1934), New York, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo, 318 pages, red cloth; dj w. small chipping; dampstain on top & dj St. John's second plate shows a nude, rock-climbing blonde - not the Lion Man! Price of $.75 unclipped. DJ lists "Pirates of Venus" on rear. Illustrated with 2 plates by J. Allen St. John.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Lion Man. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1934.
Price: US$84.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/G in mylar. The first reprint edition published by Grosset & Dunlap. Red cloth with black lettering. Cover illustration taken from p. 132 of the first edition and bordered in yellow with black lines on the sides. 2 interior illustrations by J. Allen St. John (facing the title page and opposite p. 280). DJ has a chip missing at top of spine and a small chip at heel of spine. Also a 1” closed tear at top front of dj, and some minor chipping at top and bottom of front flap crease. Back of jacket lists 37 ERB titles ending witih Pirates of Venus. Text block is tight and slightly cocked. Zeuschner #629. NO remainder mark, NOT ex-lib.
Seller: Cul de Sac Books, Clarkston, GA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar. Pirates of Venus. Burrroughs/tarzana, 1934.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edgar Rice Burrough, Inc; 1934; 7.40 X 5.10 X 1 inches; Hardcover; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Red hard cover, Tarzana 1934, $2.00 price. This is the second printing, red, not blue, very early, 1934-1936. Beautiful mylar protected jacket with art by J. Allen st. John surrounds a very good copy. Binding, corners, and hinges very, very good, text clean and unmarked, (the usual tanning 193-260). Red cloth bright, blue titles bold. Book would grade fine save for unusual dark brown areas on both endpapers. Possible newspaper clippings once laid in. Jacket untorn, and would grade fine save for scuff towards spine bottom. A very nice copy. See images.; 314 Pages
Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, California, 1934.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This early printing has been bound in a light red cloth with blue lettering on the front board and the spine. Text has yellowed with age but is very clean and solid in it's binding. An owner's plate has been affixed to the paste down front end paper. There is some corner bumping and edge wear, minor except that a small amount of board is showing on the upper back corner - miniscule. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., c 1934 (ca 1940), 1934.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ***Please Read*** 1st edition - English edition - Book shows slight wear while the DJ shows moderate wear with some foxing (see pictures) - interior is tight and clean - 314 pages - my shelf location -40-a-22
Seller: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-314 [315: ads] [316-320: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. First book of the Venus series. Carson Napier and his adventures on Venus and his meeting with the Princess Duare. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 1-16 and (1995) 1-16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 114. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02305. Heins PV-1. Some toning to end papers and text block, light ring stain to front cover, some darkening to spine, a very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with some closed tears and chips with loss, darkened spine panel and masking tape reinforcement at verso of edges and folds. (31163)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. 1934 Tarzana, California, 1934.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: textblock very good and clean; library stamp on p. 137; binding goodand tight; worn at extremites, front cover shows stain, edges dented; library pocket on rear pastedown, library stamps and pinholes on front pastedown and ffep; 314 pages; frontispiece by J. Allen St. John; an ex-library copy of a scarce title; not the beau ideal of a collector's copy (and priced accordingly), but better than a mere reading copy;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Grosset & Dunlap New York 1934, 1934.
Price: US$101.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. thus hardback in decorated cloth Fine octavo. 314pp., No dustjacket but a nice bright copy of one of Burrough's Science-Fantasy novels
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.: Tarzana (1934), 1934.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Description: Illus. by J. Allen St. John, 7.5 x 5", cloth, 314pp, one corner slightly bumped else very good in dustjacket (corner bumped), with printed slip stating that is from the Vernell Coriell Collection. 1940 reprint.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. PIRATES OF VENUS. Grosset & Dunlap ( 1934 ), 1934.
Price: US$110.20 + shipping
Description: PIRATES OF VENUS, Grosset and Dunlap, (1934), upper fore edge corner tips very gently bumped, else a bright, tight vg+ copy in a near vg full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear, chipping and dust-soil.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. PIRATES OF VENUS EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 1934 EDITION. Grosset & Dunlap, 1934.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. PIRATES OF VENUS. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1934, 8vo, 314 pages, J. Allen St. John illustrator. glossy frontis, no additional internal illustrations. Red covers with blue lettering. Back of jacket has Tarzan and the City of Gold, inside rear flap has the Apache Devil. Original dust jacket has chipping with loss at spine ends. @2.00 price of DJ spine. Book very good, jacket good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. PIRATES OF VENUS. Grosset & Dunlap, 1934.
Price: US$127.60 + shipping
Description: PIRATES OF VENUS, Grosset and Dunlap, (1934), a bit of offsetting to the paste-downs, else a bright near fine copy in a vg full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear, chipping and dust-soil.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, 1934.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small Octavo. With frontispiece and four full-page illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Original blue cloth, stamped in red; internally fine, light wear at extremities, cloth worn through at one corner. A very good copy. 314 pp.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, Tarzana, CA, 1934.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Smaller octavo. Blue buckram covered boards and spine with orange lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has a fair amount of bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the outside corners. Heavy rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and a fair amount of rubbing at the tips of the outside corners: cloth is frayed and torn at the spine's extremities and along the rear edge of the spine in a couple places - in one spot there's a small chip missing. Enough rubbing at the outside corners to wear through the cloth at the tips and expose the inner boards. Light rubbing around the outside edges. Map endpapers with Amtor. Binding is straight and still pretty tight. Light cream colored pages have a very occasional age spot, but are most all clean and crisp. 314 pages. Red publisher's topstain. Frontis art and dust jacket art both by J. Allen St. John. Dust Jacket - is worn like an original, but owner has noted that it's a facsimile jacket. Jacket is missing a chip in the rear corner of the head of the spine that is 1/2" across at it's widest point and 1/2" deep at it's deepest point.1/8" chip in the very tip of each of the outside corners and along the tail of the spine. Just a trace of rubbing along the upper and lower edges. Fair amount of evidence of handling on all the white parts of the jacket, but colors and lettering still all clear and easy to read. Please inquire for images of parts of the book not shown among those we provide. First book in Burroughs's Venus series.
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (19.5cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, purple topstain; 314pp.; frontispiece. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest measuring approx. 3/4" at top edge of upper panel touching the "P" in "Pirates," minor rubbing, a bit of dust-soil and foxing, red lettering to spine almost entirely faded, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Reprint with the 1935 novel Tarzan and the Leopard Men and later Venus novels advertised on rear flap. The first of the Venus series.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a VG hardcover first edition copy with 5 St. John plates, in blue pebble cloth binding with maroon lettering on the cover and spine and the top edge tinted maroon. With previous owner's bookplate and with label pull at the paste downs. In a near fine mylar protected DJ, white spine. Photos on request.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1934. First Edition, stated (Remaindered ERB first edition with issued-thus G&D jacket -- see below). Octavo; 314pp +1 ads. Five plates including frontis, all present. Illustrated Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket with "Illustrated" on spine and 75¢ price intact. Publisher's blue cloth with red lettering. Red topstain. Map endpapers. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few very shallow tears; general moderate to heavy smudging to surface. Boards lightly rubbed at corners and nudged at spine ends, with some scuffing down joints and a small ringstain to back. Spine a bit cocked. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. In his 2016 bibliography, Zeuschner notes that in 1935 ERB, Inc sold their remaining first edition inventory of Pirates of Venus (amount unknown) to Grosset & Dunlap, who then issued them with their own dust jackets. [Zeuschner [1996] 405 & [2016] p. 242].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. PIRATES OF VENUS. Burroughs, 1934.
Price: US$493.00 + shipping
Description: PIRATES OF VENUS, Burroughs, 1934, first edition, a tight, bright vg copy in a fine dust-wrapper. Illustrated by J. Allen St.John.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pirates Of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Reprint) Signed Firm copy with bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Minor wear to edges. Wear to spine ends. Slight soiling to spine. In clear protective cover. Burroughs later reprint of the 1934 edition. Red cloth boards with blue stamped lettering. Pictorial dust jacket. 314 pages + ads. Signed and inscribed by Burroughs on front free end page.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$640.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A handsome first edition/first printing in the blue cloth with red lettering on the front cover and spine in Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities in Fine dust-jacket. End papers decorated with the map of Venus (Amtor) drawn by Burroughs. Zeuschner 406; "If a female figure in a white shroud enters your bedchamber at midnight on the thirteenth day of this month, answer this letter; otherwise do not." ; 8vo; [ii], [4], 5-314, [6] pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Tarzana, 1934.
Price: US$790.00 + 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 five interior illustrations by J. Allen St. John, end paper maps by the author. Heins V1-1. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (1934), 314 pps. A Fine copy with modest edge wear and small bookstore sticker on rear paste down. Fine clipped jacket with tiny tears at spine ends. 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.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. PIRATES OF VENUS. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1934.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [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.
Seller: Astro Trader Books IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-314 [315: ads] [316-320: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. First book of the Venus series. Carson Napier and his adventures on Venus and his meeting with the Princess Duare. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 1-16 and (1995) 1-16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 114. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02305. Heins PV-1. Some toning to end papers and text block, a touch of rubbing to the corner tips and spine ends, spine slightly darkened, a very good to nearly fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (31162)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Pirates of Venus. Tarzana Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. 1934, 1934.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Edition. Very good copy with some light rubbing as extremities and to the boards in a lovely fresh as new original dust jacket. The front panel of the dust jacket is a colorful illustration by J. Allen St. John showing a lovely young woman wearing a short red tunic and gold crown being carried away on the shoulders of a muscular winged griffin with clawed feet.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Pirates of Venus. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1934.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by the author to his daughter Joan, who voiced Jane in the radio plays of Tarzan in the 1930s. Hardcover, bound in blue boards with dust jacket. Light edge-wear, the binding corners rubbed, toning to the text.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pirates of Venus: 314+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover. Lost on Venus: 318+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover. Carson of Venus: 312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. . Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge, Escape on Venus: 347 pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. The Wizard of Venus: 205-282 pages illustrated by Roy G Krenkel, all with illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; all in original pictorial dust jackets. Included a signed typed letter from Burroughs. one page, (8. 1/2" x 11"), Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. letterhead, April 4, 1938. Letter to William L. Kiernan, in full: "It affords me a great deal of pleasure to append my autograph hereto for your collection." (Currey p. 87; Heins CV 1 (V3); Zeuschner 70) First editions. Pirates of Venus, the first book in the Venus series (also called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"), 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. Lost On Venus, the second book in the Venus series was first serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1933 and published in book form two years later. Carson of Venus, the third book in the Venus series wich Burroughs wrote in July and August 1937. It was serialized in 1938 in six weekly installments in Argosy, the same publication where the previous two Venus novels appeared. It was published in book form a year later. The Wizard of Venus was first published in the 1964 Burroughs collection Tales of Three Planets together with the unrelated tales The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw, Beyond the Farthest Star (novel)" and Tangor Returns. Afterwards it appeared in the collection The Wizard of Venus (Ace Books, August 1970). 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. Condition: Pirates of Venus: Previous owner's name to front pastedown and end paper, light rubbing to extremities. Lost on Venus: Corners gently bumped. Carson of Venus: Jacket with light edge wear. Escape on Venus: Spine ends and points rubbed. Lost on Venus: Jacket lightly soiled, price to spine marked over, price
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.