BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE — A Fighting Man of Mars

New York, NY: Canaveral Press, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some very beginning rubbing to the edges and spine joints. There is one small semi-closed tear to the top front panel of the dust jacket and some light ground-in dirt to the rear panel. "Burroughs frequently invented words of the languages spoken by the peoples in his novels, and used these extensively in the narrative. In Thuvia, Maid of Mars he included a glossary of Barsoomian words used in the first four novels. The word "Barsoom", the native Martian word for Mars, is composed of the Martian name for planet, "soom", and the Martian word for eight, "bar". This reflects counting Mars as the eighth body in the inner solar system, by counting not just planets, but the Sun and the satellites of Earth and of Mars." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .