Three Martian Novels
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Overview:
- Title: Three Martian Novels
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0486200396
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Price: $6.00
- Pages: 499
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: The Master Mind of Mars
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1962 Dover edition at the $6.00 price. [This Publication Record].
- No printing number line or printing date in book.
- "This new Dover edition, first published in 1962, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the following works by Edgar Rice Burroughs". From copyright page.
- Thuvia, Maid of Mars first published in 1920.
- The Chessmen of Mars first published in 1922.
- The Master Mind of Mars first published in 1928.
- Book price lists on inner front and back covers. Also after page 499 is a "Dover Catalog" listing.
- "Illustrations for this edition are by J. Allen St. John and have been selected from among those in earlier editions." From copyright page. They appear to be early 1920-30's drawings with the "odalesque" or "harem eastern motif".
- "Complete unabridged reprintings of the first editions. 16 illustrations by J. Allen St. John, vi + 499 pp. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2. Paperbound." From back cover.
- The Dover page accounting did not use Roman numerals, nor are all illustrations in the numbering sequence as stated above.
- Cover designed by Theodore Menten. Along spine edge back cover.
- {{LCCN|62-3086}}.
- A Glossary of Names and Terms Used in the Martian Books on page 496 has the note. "This glossary originally appeared as an appendix to Thuvia, Maid of Mars. Listed in ToC.
- The cover art is the same as that on not numbered illustration page between page 126 and 127, with this phrase underneath "A steel blade pierced the very center of his heart". It is signed J. Allen St. John. The cover art has been colorized and changed, but credit is given to the original black and white illustration.
- Some illustrations are on pages without numbers, but in the numbering sequence, and others are on not numbered pages between the numbering sequence.
- There are at least three cover variations for the Dover 1962 editions.