THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
by BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Soiling and Corner Wear/Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1922. Spine lightly faded. Small water spot front cover (see photo). Spine extremities gently frayed . Eight illustrations by J. Allen St. John. A clean copy throughout. A total of 12,500 copies were printed of the first edition. 375pp.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Light Soiling and Corner Wear/Facsimile Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015286
- Title
- THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
- Author
- BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Soiling and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- Facsimile Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A.C. McClurg
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Burroughs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...