CHESSMEN OF MARS
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Inked number to front cover, neat inked name and address to front free end paper, slight lean, a very good copy in a very good d
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1936]. Later edition. Inked number to front cover, neat inked name and address to front free end paper, slight lean, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with 28 mm closed tear to the lower front panel, light rubbing to front flap edge and along top edge, shallow chip with loss to upper spine panel, small closed tear at the lower left front edge at spine fold, the front panel is complete and bright. (24899). Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-375 [376-380: ads], four inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained green. The fifth in the Mars series. Heins CM-3. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints CM-10, Jacket variant 6.
Synopsis
The Chessmen of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the fifth of his famous Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921, and the finished story 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.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24899
- Title
- CHESSMEN OF MARS
- Author
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Book Condition
- Used - Inked number to front cover, neat inked name and address to front free end paper, slight lean, a very good copy in a very good d
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c. 1936]
- Keywords
- SF
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