The Venus Quintet Series: Pirates of Venus/Lost on Venus/Carson of Venus/Escape on Venus and The Wizard of Venus in a collection of Tales of Three Planets

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Author: Edgar Rice "E R" Burroughs (1875-1950) signed Year: 1934-1964 Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and Canaveral Press Place: Tarzana and New York Description: Pirates of Venus : 314+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover; Lost on Venus : 318+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover; Carson of Venus : 312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED . Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge; Escape on Venus : 347 pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover; The Wizard of Venus : 205-282 pages illustrated by Roy G Krenkel, all with illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; all in original pictorial dust jackets. (Currey p. 87; Heins CV?1 (V3); Zeuschner 70) First editions.; Pirates of Venus , the first book in the Venus series (also called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"), the last major series in Burroughs's career It was first serialized in six parts in Argosy in 1932 and published in book form two years later. Lost On Venus , the second book in the Venus series was first serialized in the magazine

• Binding: Hardcover

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