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Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917....
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A very fine copy of Burroughs' first Martian novel, in an unrestored dust jacket
Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars. Chicago: A.
C. McClurg & Co., 1917.8vo. Frontispiece and four inserted plates by Frank E. Schoonover. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in red-orange; original illustrated dust jacket by Schoonover.
FIRST EDITION of Burroughs' first Martian novel, with "Published October, 1917" stated on the copyright page. The story was first serialized in a shorter format in The All-Story in 1912 under the pseudonym "Norman Bean." A Princess of Mars was the foundational story of Burroughs' Martian series: "this profoundly seminal work written in 1911 virtually singlehandedly created and then explored a new genre of adventure fiction, the interplanetary romance. The story belongs to the tradition of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and the lost race novels of H. Rider Haggard, but it led the direction of science fiction novels into a new realm for the next several decades, and its influence upon future generations of writers, astronomers and politicians is well-documented" (Zeuschner, 2016).
"This pioneering account of John Carter's magical transmission to the the planet Mars and his subsequent baroque adventures established a new template for fiction set on other planets, developing such imaginative spaces as arenas for exuberantly uninhibited tales of exotic daring-do . Although it hardly qualifies as science-based speculative fiction, Burroughs' account of Barsoom was enormously influential in pulp SF, standing at the head of a rich sub-genre of 'planetary romances' whose evolution was carried forward by such writers as C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, and Ray Bradbury" (Anatomy of Wonder).
Condition: A touch of loss to red lettering on cover and spine; a few light scratches; corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket with publisher's bevel cut flap corners, with $1.35 price printed on spine as issued; faint "Popular Edition" rubber stamp on spine panel; a few tiny chips to ends of spine panel and flap folds; some light rubbing. A very fine copy in an unrestored dust jacket.
References: Anatomy of Wonder III, 1-17 (First Purchase, Core Collection title); Bleiler, Science Fiction, 304; Currey, page 91; Heins PM1; Zeuschner (1996), 423; Zeuschner (2016), page 249.
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