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Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Synthetic Men of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, Tarzana, 1940.
Price: US$5700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed First Edition, so stated on the copyright page; with two original dust jackets - both the pre-publication and the trade versions. Publisher's original blue pebbled cloth with the front and spine lettered in red, top edge stained red. Dust jacket and five interior plates by John Coleman Burroughs. This unique copy is signed by three of ERB's children: To Robert Horvath - /with best wishes/John Coleman Burroughs/Hulbert Burroughs/Joan Burroughs Pierce/2-10-60. Heins M9-1. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc (1940), 315 pps. A Very Fine tight square copy. The Nearly fine pre-publication jacket with marketing material on reverse has a vertical crease on spine and another at front gutter. Fine trade version of the laminated state jacket with tape ghost over small tear on reverse of top edge. 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.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first bound copy (indicated by a bookplate) inscribed to Eddie Gilbert, ERB's brother-in-law, dated and signed by the author. Hardcover, bound in blue boards with dust jacket. Moderate edge-wear, old tape closed tear repairs on the verso of the jacket, toning to the endpapers. Includes reduced print reproduction of an ERB portrait inscribed to Gilbert laid inside.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.