Swords of Mars: John Carter Of Mars Series by Burroughs, Edgar Rice - 1963

Ballantine Books. Very Good. 1963. First Edition: Tenth Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Vol. 8: KB#014472: Ballantine #27546 Original List Price $1.50 as labeled. Covers and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's name on inside front cover and top of title page), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Cover was illustrated by Gino D'Achille. "For the first time the action of the series goes off-planet, as Ur Jan and Gar Nal flee with Dejah to the Martian moon Thuria (Phobos) in one of the spacecraft, pursued by Carter and his allies Jat Or and Zanda in the other. The passage shrinks the travelers down until to them the tiny moon is the size of a planet. There, all are captured by the sun-worshipping Tarids, white-skinned and blue-haired natives of Thuria (which they call Ladan) whose mental powers render them invisible to the spacefarers. To win freedom from their jeweled prison, the antagonists must join forces with each other, aided by another captive, the one-eyed and two-mouthed chameleon-like "cat-man" Umka. ": Cover Art: 4.25 x 7 in.: 191 pages .