Looking for a last minute holiday stocking stuffer for the science fiction aficionado in your family? Consider a signed first edition hardcover copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs’
A Fighting Man of Mars (1931). Here’s a copy which is selling for $4,500 at
AbeBooks. Note the significance of the inscription.
A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1931)
Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Books
Publication Date: 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, Edgar Rice Burroughs to his daughter, Joan Burroughs, and her husband, James Pierce, the star of the 1928 silent film, Tarzan and the Golden Lion. Inscribed: "To Joan and Jim, With love, Ed., Tarzana, California." Fine in a used and rubbed dust jacket lacking an inch and one half piece at top of the spine, and has a few small tears. Joan and James Pierce starred as Jane and Tarzan on the serialized Adventures of Tarzan radio show in the 1930s.
Price: $4,500
For some retro holiday spirit, see the recent posts at
QuasarDragon, where several sci-fi magazine covers feature Santa Claus. And for those of us who still believe in Santa, you can follow his journey on NORAD’s
Santa Tracker. Merry Christmas!
Looking for a last minute holiday stocking stuffer for the science fiction aficionado in your family? Consider a signed first edition hardcover copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Fighting Man of Mars (1931). Here’s a copy which is selling for $4,500 at AbeBooks. Note the significance of the inscription.
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