Issued in pebbled blue cloth (this copy) and smooth textured cloth, no priority established.
Octavo, original blue cloth, front cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the penultimate work in Burroughs’ richly imaginative Venus series, inscribed on the cartographic endpaper by Burroughs, “To -, With best wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs,” in scarce original dust jacket.Įscape on Venus, the fourth in Burroughs’ inventive five-volume Venus saga, follows Carson Napier and Princess Duare in a series of perilous encounters with strange and often monstrous humans: the fish-like Myposans who enslave Napier and Duare the plant-like Brokols with their “sickly greenish hue” the deceptively friendly Vooyorgans, who drug and paralyze their human captives to display them in a ghastly museum, and the Cloud People-who live amidst fierce battles between the Falsans and Pangans in ships armed with ray guns. Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, (1946). INSCRIBED BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, FIRST EDITION OF ESCAPE ON VENUSīURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
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