Los Angeles Times on original book dust jackets and the counterfeiting market

Allison Hoover Bartlett has written an awesome article in today’s Los Angeles Times entitled “Intrigue, ingenuity and controversy in the library world.” It’s about the value of original book dust jackets and the counterfeiting market. On a positive note, Bartlett's article mentions a reputable company called Facsimile Dust Jackets of San Francisco. Check out these cool facsimiles of first edition dust jackets that you can buy for just $22 each:

• A Princess of Mars (1917), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Gods of Mars (1918), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Warlord of Mars (1919), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Chessmen of Mars (1922), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Master Mind of Mars (1928), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• A Fighting Man of Mars (1931), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Planet Plane (1936), by John Beynon

• Swords of Mars (1936), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Synthetic Men of Mars (1940), by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• A Martian Odyssey and Others (1949), by Stanley G. Weinbaum

• Red Planet (1949), by Robert A. Heinlein

• The Martian Chronicles (1950), by Ray Bradbury

• The Sands of Mars (1951), by Arthur C. Clarke

• Marooned on Mars (1952), by Lester Del Rey

• The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955), by Isaac Asimov

Allison Hoover Bartlett is the author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, which is scheduled to land on bookstore shelves in September 2009.

Pictured: Marooned on Mars (1952), by Lester Del Rey