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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). First Editions of the Original Venus Series. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1932-1946.
Lot 70

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). First Editions of the Original Venus Series. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1932-1946.

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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950). First Editions of the Original Venus Series in Dust Jackets. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.,  1932-1946. 8vos. Illustrated. The first four volumes of the Venus series (there was a novella posthumously published in 1964, The Wizard of Venus, not included here). Publisher's full blue cloth, lettered in red, all in unclipped dust jackets. 

Titles include: Pirates of Venus (bookseller's ticket on rp.); Lost on Venus; Carson of Venus; Escape on Venus (issue with rear endleaves blank - rp. is soiled). 

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Cloth and jackets generally rubbed (most cloth bindings somewhat more rubbed than jackets), Lost on Venus jacket is quite worn, with tears, tape reinforcement on verso. Lost on Venus is very good, the other titles are fine. 

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