EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Volume 0736
presents
J. Allen St. John wraparound: Swords of Mars - 5 interiors
SWORDS OF MARS
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


PUBLISHING HISTORY (USA)
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: ERBzine 0228
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
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