Pirates of Venus
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Year: 1934
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Place: Tarzana
Description:
314+[1, ads]+ [5, blank] pages with frontispiece and four tipped in illustrations by Allen St. John. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's full blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in red in publisher's unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Donald A Wollheim's copy with his ink ownership stamp on the rear end paper. (Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 1-16 and (1995) 1- 16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 114. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02305. Heins PV-1) First edition.
Pirates of Venus, the first book in the Venus series (also called the "Carson Napier of Venus series"), the last major series in Burroughs's career It was first serialized in six parts in Argosy in 1932 and published in book form two years later.
Donald Allen Wollheim (1914-1990) was an American science fiction editor, publisher, writer, and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell, Martin Pearson, and Darrell G. Raynor. A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th-century United States. Ursula K. Le Guin called Wollheim "the tough, reliable editor of Ace Books, in the Late Pulpalignean Era, 1966 and '67", which is when he published her first two novels in Ace Double editions.
Condition:
Cloth spine a bit sunned and head rubbed with some fraying, light rubbing to boards. Jacket with one tape repair to jacket verso at spine, light rubbing, toning to jacket else very good in a very good to fine jacket.
