Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1972. hardcover. Good/Good. Frank Frazetta. Dust jacket has some edge wear, with some fading at spine; now in new removable protective cover. Hunter boards with gilt print on spine. Prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Pages are clean and unmarked. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of Science Fiction Book Club) hard cover with dust jacket, Dec. 1972 edition but later October 1973 printing (code 35P); SFBC #5517, 341 pages, cover art by Frank Frazetta. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.75"") Omnibus of two of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian (Barsoom) novels: Thuvia, Maid of Mars; and The Chessmen of Mars. Thuvia, Maid of Mars was first published in All-Story Weekly as a serial in three parts on April 8, 15, and 22, 1916. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in October, 1920. The Chessmen of Mars was first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a six-part serial in the issues for February 18 and 25 and March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1922. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in November, 1922. The dust jacket features a wrap around painting by Frank Frazetta showing a man with a sword defending a woman from a feline predator. These are the 4th and 5th novels in the Barsoom series, preceded by A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars; and followed by The Master Mind of Mars, A Fighting Man of Mars, Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars, Llana of Gathol, and John Carter of Mars.