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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
John Carter of Mars
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York;
Date of Publication: 2019
Stock Code: 12082
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp. 336. Fold-out colour frontispiece with 19 further colour plates, six of which are fold-out, and further monochrome illustrations throughout. Publisher’s red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket with adverts to verso; mapped endpapers. Housed in a red slipcase with gilt John Carter motifs to two faces. Die cut promotional colour bookmark & facsimile postcard loosely inserted. A clean, neat copy which appears unread. Barely visible patches of discolouration to slipcase edge. Near fine. No. 33 in a limited Grosset & Dunlap edition of only 400 copies. Signed by contributors Richard A. Lupoff, Kevin J. Anderson, Bob Eggleton & Douglas Klauba, with foreword by Anderson and an introduction by Lupoff. A handsomely produced collector’s copy comprising of two of Burrough’s sci-fi adventure stories: ‘John Carter and the Giant of Mars’ and ‘Skeleton Men of Jupiter’. With additional appendices including a bibliography. £180.00