Illus. with 5 plates by Frank E. Schoonover incl. color frontis. Brown cloth lettered in red, facsimile of the original color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.

Presentation copy inscribed by Burroughs to Ed Gilbert on the front free endpaper, "To Eddie Gilbert, with every good wish, Edgar Rice Burroughs." This was the first real story written by Burroughs, in 1911, preceded only by two childish efforts written years before. It first appeared in six issues of The All-Story Weekly, Feb.-July, 1912, under the pseudonym Norman Bean. A profoundly seminal work, it singlehandedly created the "interplanetary romance" form of science fiction. John Carter, the hero of "uncertain age," finds adventure on Mars romancing Princess Dejah Thoris and fighting fierce red and green creatures, eventually fatefully returning to earth. Heins M1.1; Zeuschner 424.