BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Swords of Mars. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1936. FIRST EDITION.
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). Swords of Mars. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1936.
8vo. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jacket (dry tape residue to verso, light chipping to extremities, creasing to flaps, sunning to spine).
FIRST EDITION. Swords of Mars is famous for its dedication of love to Burroughs’s future wife Florence hidden in the first letter of its preface and following chapters which when put together reads, “To Florence with all my love Ed.” Currey p. 91; Zeuschner 501; Heins M8.1.
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