EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Volume 0426
presents
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
Argosy All-Story - February 18, 1922 - Chessmen of Mars 1/7J. Allen St. John: Chessmen of Mars - 8 sepia interiors - Jetan board on back coverJ. Allen St. John: Chessmen of Mars - 8 sepia interiors - Jetan board on back cover
ERB started writing this fifth Mars novel in January 1921


PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)
PULP
Argosy All-Story Weekly: 1922 February 18, 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25
    P.J. Monahan: first issue cover ~ Roger B. Morrison: b/w headpieces in each issue
FIRST EDITION
A.C. McClurg: November 29, 1922 ~ 375 pages
    J. Allen St. John: DJ and eight sepia interior plates
REPRINT EDITIONS
Grosset & Dunlap: 1924 and many later reprints ~ only four St. John interiors
Grosset & Dunlap: 1940 ~ no interiors
ERB, Inc. Tarzana: March 26, 1948 ~ St. John DJ and frontispiece
Dover: April 1962 and many later reprints: Three Martian Novels with Thuvia, Maid of Mars & Master Mind of Mars
    J. Allen St. John: paperback cover and 16 interiors ~ 499 pages (see Thuvia)
Ace paperback: December 1962 ~ 256 pages
    Roy G. Krenkel cover and title page
Ballantine paperback: October 1963 ~ 220 pages
    Robert Abbett cover
Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club: 1972 ~ 341 pages
    Frank Frazetta: wrap-around DJ and six b/w interiors
Ballantine paperback: October 1973
    Gino D'Achille cover
Ballantine - Del Rey paperback: May 1979
    Michael Whelan cover
For detailed information see: Robert Zeuschner's
ERB: The Exhaustive Scholar’s and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography
CHAPTER TITLES
Prelude: John Carter Comes to Earth
Tara in a Tantrum
At the Gale's Mercy
The Headless Humans
Captured
The Perfect Brain
In the Toils of Horror
A Repellent Sight
Close Work
Adrift Over Strange Regions
Entrapped
The Choice of Tara
Gehk Plays Pranks
A Desperate Deed
At Ghek's Command
The Old Man of the Pits
Another Change of Name
A Play to the Death
A Task for Loyalty
The Menace of the Dead
The Charge of Cowardice
A Risk for Love
At the Moment of Marriage
Jetan, or Martian Chess
CAST OF CHARACTERS ~ PLACES ~ THINGS
CHARACTERS
ERB
Shea
John Carter
Tara
Dejah Thoris
Djor Kantos
Olvia Marthis
Gahan, Jed of Gathol
Uthia
Luud
Ghek
Turan (aka Gahan)
U-Dor
O-Tar
A-Kor
Lan-O
E-Med
U-Van
I-Zan
U-Thor (jed)
Haja
I-Gos
U-Kal (aka Gahan)
Val Dor
Floran
Tasor
A-Sor (aka Tasor)
O-Mai the Cruel
E-Thas
 

 

 PLACES
Helium
Hastor
Gathol
Lesser Helium
Scarlet Tower
Cluros
Luud's Tower
Bantoom
Hall of Chiefs
Towers of Jetan
Manator
Manatos
Gate of Enemies
Fields of Jetan
Manataj
THINGS
Jetan
Dance of Barsoom
Woola (calot)
flier
Vanator (airship)
banths
radium bulbs
kaldanes
rykors
hypnotisim
Utan
zitidar
thoat
ulsio
corphal
odwar

J. ALLEN ST. JOHN INTERIOR ART GALLERY

Turan, the Slave! they cried Death to him!The Princess Comes! Dejah Thoris! The Princess Comes!To the girl's horror, the headless body moved.Only a single antagonist could face him at a time upon the narrow stairway.A giant Martian rat was gnawing upon his arm.O-Tar's sword slipped from his nerveless fingers.Gahan of Gathol smote the man from his mount.Gahan looked in upon a small chamber dimly lighted.
Frank Frazetta Gallery of Doubleday Art
Doubleday Edition: Frank Frazetta wrap-around dust jacket
As Gahan entered his square, Uo-Dor leaped toward him with drawn sword.To Tara's horror, the headless body moved, took the hideous head in its hands and set it on its shoulders.Twice Turan struk the Marian rat away, but both times it returned with increased ferocity to renew the attack.

PAPERBACK GALLERY
Roy Krenkel art: Ace edition 1963Michael Whelan art: Del Rey edition 1979Four Square UK editionNew English Lilbrary UK edition
Japanese editionJetan: Japanese art
PUBLIC DOMAIN ELECTRONIC VERSION

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