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Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (First Edition) Signed Minor corner wear, lightly rubbed covers, dusty top edge. Top pull. Cracked showing webbing between blank pages before Frontispiece. All 8 plates firmly intact. Square. Minor smudges otherwise very clean textblock. Facsimile Dust Jacket. Signed. First edition, November 1922. Signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs' two sons: "With Best Wishes, Hulbert Burroughs, John Coleman Burroughs, Tarzana, Calif. 8-21-63" (inscription in Hulbert's hand). Red cloth, black lettering. 375pp. Art by J. Allen St. John. Eight illustration plates including the Frontispiece. The Barsoom (Mars) series, 5. Facsimile Dust Jacket.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (First Edition) Signed Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine hinge beginning to crack showing webbing. Tanned dust jacket. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. In clear protective cover. First edition. Light olive green cloth, stamped black. 277pp. + ads. Grosset and Dunlap Jacket. Very interesting copy with ERB TLS pasted to front pasted end page. J. Allen St. John Christmas card with a very cool piece of art from him tipped onto front flyleaf. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Nine black and white plates including the Frontispiece.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Chessmen of Mars (inscribed by author). A. C. McClurg & Co, 1922.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Chessmen of Mars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. First edition. Inscribed by the author, "For / The O Henry Memorial Library / From / Edgar Rice Burroughs / Los Angeles / April 23 1925." Octavo. [8], 375, [1, blank] pages. Frontispiece and seven additional inserted plates by J. Allen St. John. Publisher's red cloth, spine and front lettered in black; all text block edges trimmed; original illustrated dust jacket with chessboard design and $1.90 price on rear panel. Spine ends gently pushed; minor shelf wear at extremities of binding; minor discoloration at front board. Endpapers and text block softly dulled, with foxing at endpapers and text block edges; some further, milder foxing scattered throughout interior margins. Jacket fairly worn and soiled, with nicking and chipping at spine and flap fold ends; handful of minuscule tears and creasing along edges; some soiling and rubbing at verso, with two tiny pieces of clear tape reinforcing short tears at verso. Deceased arachnid squished between pp. 340-341. Very good book in a good jacket. Zeuschner, p. 61. From the Albert E. Willis Collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE CHESSMEN OF MARS .. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1922.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-375 [376: blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A presentation copy with gift inscription by Burroughs signed "Ed" to "Lucy & Bill" dated 25 December 1922 at Tarzana Ranch. Fifth book of the Mars series. 12,500 copies printed. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 308. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02278. Heins CM-1. A clean, bright, very good copy in good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with creases and closed tears along top and bottom edges mended by a professional paper conservator. An attractive copy of an uncommon book in jacket. In custom blue cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. (#155524)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Signed1st St. John Art Bumping and rubbing to corners, spine ends, and along edges. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. .5 inch chip to top spine. In clear protective cover. First edition. Red cloth, stamped black. 375pp. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Eight black and white plates including the Frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by Burroughs on front free end page.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.