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Edgar Rice Burroughs'
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
Argosy All-Story - February 18, 1922 - Chessmen of Mars 1/7J. Allen St. John: Chessmen of Mars - 8 sepia interiors - Jetan board on back cover


PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)
ERB started writing this fifth Mars novel in January 1921

PULP
Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1922 February 18, 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25
    P.J. Monahan: first issue cover ~ Roger B. Morrison: b/w headpieces in each issue
FIRST EDITION
A.C. McClurg: November 29, 1922 ~ 375 pages
    J. Allen St. John: DJ and eight sepia interior plates
REPRINT EDITIONS
Grosset & Dunlap: 1924 and many later reprints ~ only four St. John interiors
Grosset & Dunlap: 1940 ~ no interiors
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 26, 1948 ~ St. John DJ and frontispiece
Dover: April 1962 and many later reprints: Three Martian Novels with Thuvia, Maid of Mars & Master Mind of Mars
    J. Allen St. John: paperback cover and 16 interiors ~ 499 pages
Ace paperback: December 1962 ~ 256 pages
    Roy G. Krenkel cover and title page
Ballantine paperback: October 1963 ~ 220 pages
    Robert Abbett cover
Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club: 1972 ~ 341 pages
    Frank Frazetta: wrap-around DJ and six b/w interiors
Ballantine paperback: October 1973
    Gino D'Achille cover
Ballantine - Del Rey paperback: May 1979
    Michael Whelan cover

For detailed information see:Robert Zeuschner's
ERB: The Exhaustive Scholar’s and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography


J. ALLEN ST. JOHN INTERIOR ART GALLERY
Turan, the Slave! they cried Death to him!The Princess Comes! Dejah Thoris! The Princess Comes!To the girl's horror, the headless body moved.Only a single antagonist could face him at a time upon the narrow stairway.A giant Martian rat was gnawing upon his arm.O-Tar's sword slipped from his nerveless fingers.Gahan of Gathol smote the man from his mount.Gahan looked in upon a small chamber dimly lighted.

FRANK FRAZETTA GALLERY (in preparation)

PAPERBACK GALLERY
Roy Krenkel art: Ace edition 1963Michael Whelan art: Del Rey edition 1979Four Square UK editionNew English Lilbrary UK edition
Japanese editionJetan: Japanese art

References
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Bill Hillman's Illustrated ERB Bibliography: 1921
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: LifeLine Biography
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Burroughs Bibliophiles Bulletin
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Bruce Wood's ERB Jacket Store
Ed Stephan's Tarzan of the Internet
Nick Knowles' ERB Paperback Collector
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Clark A. Brady's Burroughs Cyclopedia
Heins' Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bradford M. Day's Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Bibliography
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