EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Volume 0421 Presents
A PRINCESS OF MARS "To My Son Jack" Written between July 1911 and September 28, 1911 WT= 1. My First Adventure on Mars, 2. The Green Martians, 3. Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess, 4. Under the Moons of Mars MT=Under the Moons of Mars - Series Title in Modern Mechanics = Carter of the Red Planet. |
| PULP:
"Under the Moons of Mars" ~ THE ALL-STORY 1912 6 pulp magazine issues February - July, 1912 Fred W. Small: b/w headpiece repeated in each issue Carter of the Red Planet: Modern Mechanics and Invention magazine: April - July 1929 C. Saunders: two interiors per installment A.C. McClurg: September 1917 ~ Pre-publication paperback FIRST: A.C. McClurg & Co. ~ October 10, 1917 ~ 326 pages Frank Schoonover: DJ painting and five sepia plates REPRINTS: Grosset & Dunlap ~ 1918 - 1940 ~ many of the reprintings contain a fp and 4 interior illustrations ERB Inc. March 26, 1948 ~ Schoonover DJ and frontispiece only Ballantine Books (later Del-Rey) ~ January 1963 ~ 159 pages Robert Abbett cover Dover Publications (Paired with A Fighting Man of Mars) May 1964 (two editions) ~ 356 pages Frank Schoonover two-colour DJ and five original interiors Doubleday Book Club: 1970 ~ 179 pages Frank Frazetta: DJ and four interiors Ballantine Books: October 1973 Gino D'Achille cover Ballantine - Del Rey: May 1979 Michael Whelan cover Carroll & Graff Publishers: 1989 ~ 159 pages Kiko cover Easton Press - Masterpieces of SF: leather binding (Paired with At the Earth's Core) 1996 Ron Miller illustrations ~ L. Sprague de Camp introduction For detailed information see:Robert
Zeuschner's
ERB: The Exhaustive Scholar’s and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography |
All-Story Magazine ~ February - July, 1912
See ERBzine
0419 and ERBzine 0221


Our thanks to Robert B. Zeuschner for supplying
scans of the Schoonover interior art
For detailed bibliographic information see
Zeuschner's
ERB: The Exhaustive Scholar’s
and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography of American Periodical,
Hardcover,
Paperback and Reprint Editions
Dial 1-800-253-2187 to order
a copy from McFarland for $46.50
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the e-Text Edition Here
Log
Notes for the Novel in ERBzine
Visit
the Schoonover Art Gallery and Bio in ERBzine 0422
Frank Frazetta Illustrations
from the
1970 Doubleday Edition



| 1. On the Arizona Hills
2. The Escape of the Dead 3. My Advent on Mars 4. A Prisoner 5. I Elude My Watch Dog 6. A Fight That Won Friends 7. Child-Raising On Mars 8. A Fair Captive from the Sky 9. I Learn the Language 10. Champion and Chief 11. With Dejah Thoris 12. A Prisoner with Power 13. Love-Making on Mars 14. A Duel to the Death |
15. Sola Tells Me Her Story
16. We Plan Escape 17. A Costly Recapture 18. Chained in Warhoon 19. Battling in the Arena 20. In the Atmosphere Factory 21. An Air Scout for Zodanga 22. I Find Dejah 23. Lost in the Sky 24. Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend 25. The Looting of Zodanga 26. Through Carnage to Joy 27. From Joy to Death 28. At the Arizona Cave |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter James K Powell Tars Tarkas Sola Woola (calot) Lorquas Ptomal Dejah Thoris Sarkoja Zad Tal Hajus |
Bar Comas
Dak Kova Kantos Kan air plant keeper Sab Than Than Kosis Tardos Mors royal psychologist Gozava Mors Kajak |
Chronology Charts for A Princess
of Mars
From Chronology For the Princess of Mars Trilogy
by Fredrik Ekman
ERBzine
0507
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A Princess of Mars |
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| Mar 5 | 0;0 | Advent upon Mars | 1 | ||
| Mar 6 | 0;1 | The incubator ceremony | |||
| Mar 9 | 0;4 | Dejah Thoris is captured | |||
| Mar 15 | 0;10 | Defends Dejah Thoris in the audience chamber | |||
| Mar 19 | 0;14 | Departure from Korad | 2 | ||
| Mar 20 | 0;15 | Duel with Zad | |||
| Apr 7 | 0;34 | Kantos Kan arrives at Helium | |||
| Apr 7 | 0;34 | Arrival at Thark | 3 | ||
| Apr 8 | 0;34 | Escape from Thark | |||
| Apr 10 | 0;37 | Captured by Warhoon | |||
| Apr 13 | 0;40 | Warhoons march for home | |||
| Apr 16 | 0;43 | Arrival at Warhoon | 4 | ||
| Apr 24 | 0;50 | Murders jailer | |||
| Apr 25 | 0;52 | Kantos Kan arrives at Warhoon | |||
| Apr 28 | 0;54 | Kantos Kan imprisoned | |||
| May 1 | 0;57 | Escape during the great games | |||
| May 4 | 0;60 | Sets out from Warhoon | |||
| May 18 | 0;74 | Arrival at atmosphere factory | |||
| May 19 | 0;75 | Guest at the Ptor brothers' | |||
| May 23 | 0;79 | Sets out for Zodanga | 5 | ||
| May 30 | 0;86 | Kantos Kan arrives at Zodanga | |||
| Jun 2 | 0;89 | Arrival at Zodanga | |||
| Jun 7 | 0;93 | Finds Dejah Thoris | |||
| Jun 8 | 0;94 | Battle outside Thark | |||
| Jun 11 | 0;97 | Tharks march toward Zodanga | |||
| Jun 22 | 0;107 | Battle of Zodanga | |||
| Jun 23 | 0;109 | Tharks arrive outside Helium | |||
| Jun 24 | 0;110 | The battle of Helium is won | |||
| Jul 6 | 0;121 | Tharks march from Helium | 6 | ||
| Jul 27 | 0;142 | Married with Dejah Thoris | 7 | ||
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| Feb 9 | 2;383 | Dejah Thoris lays an egg | 8 | ||
| Mar 4 | 2;404 | Thuvia of Ptarth enslaved by the therns | 9 | ||
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| Jan 31 | 5;92 | Message about atmosphere factory received | |||
| Feb 4 | 5;96 | Saves the day and returns to Earth | 10 | ||
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