Books Updare: Re-Working our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Master of Adventure: Mars & Pellucidar
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror category for the first of several updates spotlighting the Master of Adventure Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was very prolific, and wrote in several series, in addition to his most famous creation Tarzan of the Apes. His style and settings set the tone for a whole library full of imitators/homagists in jungle, interplanetary and exotic locales. We shall be covering our ERB stock in a number of updates over the coming weeks, starting here with his Mars adventures (my personal favourite), plus a quick visit to the land of Pellucidar, at the Earth’s core. We have five Mars hardcovers, published by Methuen in the 1950s with dust jackets depicting the first edition classic illustrations (these are really beautiful books), plus another UK 1950s paperback, plus a US Pellucidar novel which is new in stock. The Mars series ran to eleven volumes, Pellucidar to seven. Watch for the next ERB update coming soon.
PICTURED: ALL BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (All DJs in removable archival film)
MARS #1: A PRINCESS OF MARS Methuen 1952 13th UK HC VG/FN £30 With DJ (GD) SOLD
MARS #2: THE GODS OF MARS Methuen 1952 7th UK HC GD/VG £20 With DJ (GD)
MARS #4: THUVIA, MAID OF MARS Methuen 1951 7th UK HC VG £15 With DJ (VG)
MARS #4: THUVIA, MAID OF MARS Pinnacle 1950s UK PB VG £8
MARS #5: THE CHESSMEN OF MARS Methuen 1951 5th UK HC VG £20 With DJ (GD)
MARS #6: THE MASTER MIND OF MARS Methuen 1952 2nd UK HC VG £25 With DJ (GD/VG)
PELLUCIDAR #3: TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR Ace 1st US PB VG/FN £5