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Thuvia, Maid of Mars & The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Doubleday, 1972)

Contributed by Michael Chabon on Jan 3rd, 2021. Artwork published in .
Thuvia, Maid of Mars & The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Doubleday, 1972) 1
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A bold instance of Frank Frazetta’s jacket illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “John Carter of Mars” adventure novels, which helped revive the character in the late 1960s/early 1970s, here paired with a classic “psychedelic” font, Scorpio, which seems to hint at the many shag-carpeted and airbrushed vans whose sides were so often, in that era, illuminated with Frazetta facsimiles. This is the Book Club edition published by Nelson Doubleday in 1972. The interior has black-and-white illustrations by Frazetta, too.

Thuvia, Maid of Mars & The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Doubleday, 1972) 2
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars & The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Doubleday, 1972) 3
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