BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). A Princess of Mars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. 8vo. Illustrated with five plates by Frank E. Schoonover. [327] pp. Publisher's full brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in red. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST STORY BURROUGHS WROTE, AND THE FIRST VOLUME OF HIS FAMOUS "MARS" ("BARSOOM") SERIES. Burroughs wrote this in 1911, but it was not published in book form until 1917, after he had previously published four other books. This popular book created the "interplanetary romance" genre in science fiction. This title (and the other Mars, or "Barsoom" titles) influenced many writers, including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and others. Offered with facsimile dust jacket.

Spine lightly sunned and bumped, minor rubbing, faint minor soiling to boards, endleaves lightly offset, rear hinge starting, ownership signature on ffep., some pages with intermittent soiling at lower corner, lightly skewed. Still, a fine copy, better than usually seen.