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William G. Hillman
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Edgar Rice Burroughs'
SWORDS OF MARS
J. Allen St. John wraparound: Swords of Mars - 5 interiors


PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)
Written in November-December 1933
"To Florence with all My Love Ed"
Dedication in form of an acrostic from the first letter of every chapter

PULP
Blue Book Magazine: 1934 November, December ~ 1935: January-April
    Joseph Chenoweth: December cover ~ Ondrek Zaula or Henry Soulen: January cover ~ Robert Fink: six interiors
FIRST EDITION
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: February 15, 1936 ~ 315 pages
    J. Allen St. John: wraparound DJ and five interior plates
REPRINT EDITIONS
Grosset & Dunlap: 1937
Grosset & Dunlap: 1938 ~ St. John DJ and only two interiors
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: 1940 ~ St. John DJ and only one interior
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 26, 1948
Ballantine paperback: May 1963 ~ 191 pages
    Robert Abbett cover
Ballantine paperback: October 1973
    Gino D'Achille cover
Doubleday Science-Fiction Book Club: January 1975 ~ with Synthetic Men of Mars ~ 345 pages
    Frank Frazetta: DJ and six interiors
Ballantine - Del Rey paperback: April 1979
    Michael Whelan cover

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

PULP COVER GALLERY
Ref: ERBzin-e 228
Blue Book: December 1934 - Swords of Mars 2/6Blue Book: January 1935 - Swords of Mars 3/6
PULP ART GALLERY

J. ALLEN ST. JOHN ART GALLERY
He lunged at me viciously.I took Ozara in my arms and jumped.This, he said, is the brain.A sword flashed inward.It succeeded in eluding him.

GALLERY OF COVER ART
In preparation: Frazetta interiors and Whelan cover
Robert Abbett art: Ballantine 1963Gino D'Achille art: Ballantine 1973Frank Frazetta art: Doubleday edition 1975Swords of Mars: Japanese edition


References
Bill Hillman's Illustrated ERB Bibliography
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Hillman ERB Cosmos
Patrick Ewing's First Edition Determinors
John Coleman Burroughs Tribute
ERBList Summary by David Adams
J. Allen St. John Bio, Gallery & Links
Edgar Rice Burroughs: LifeLine Biography
Bob Zeuschner's ERB Bibliography
J.G. Huckenpohler's ERB Checklist
Burroughs Bibliophiles Bulletin
G. T. McWhorter's Burroughs Bulletin Index
Bruce Wood's ERB Jacket Store
Ed Stephan's Tarzan of the Internet
Nick Knowles' ERB Paperback Collector
Illustrated Bibliography of ERB Pulp Magazines
Phil Normand's Recoverings
ERBzin-e Weekly Online Fanzine
ERB Emporium: Collectibles ~ Comics ~ BLBs ~ Pulps ~ Cards
ERBVILLE: ERB Public Domain Stories in PDF
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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