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Burroughs, Edgar Rice.
Carson of Venus.
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., California;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 11188
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 312, [1] adverts. Monochrome frontispiece and 5 further plates. Publisher’s electric blue cloth with red titles to spine and upper board and red hunter motif to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket; red upper edges and mapped endpapers. Very light sunning to upper board edges and spine; jacket shows very slight creasing to spine tail and small areas of surface loss to edges. Overall a very clean copy; FIRST EDITION, with the first state jacket, of Burrough’s third novel in the Venus series. A rip-roaring adventure in which Earth man, Carson Napier, must battle sea monsters and the living dead to rescue his beloved princess on Venus. Brought to life with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, Edgar Rice’s son. £200.00