A Fighting Man of Mars

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

ISBN 10: 0345235843 / ISBN 13: 9780345235848

Published by Ballantine, New York, 1964

About this Item

Mass market paperback, third (1973) printing, 192 pages; spine heavily creased and slanted, still tight in binding, reader's creases to front cover, creases to back cover corners, waterstain to bottom of fore edge extending along bottom edge with traces of staining to outer edges of a few pages, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Burroughs' titles (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Seller Inventory # 046374

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Fighting Man of Mars
• Publisher: Ballantine, New York
• Publication Date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345235843
• ISBN 13: 9780345235848
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Cover Painting by Gino D'Achille
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy Fiction
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Classic Science Fiction Novel From The Creator Of Tarzan In Which Hadron Of Hastor Seeks Vengeance When A New Weapon Attacks Warlord John Carter And The Lady Helium Disappears.

About the Author

Edgar Rice Burroughs fame stems from the creation of Tarzan and the Barsoom science fiction series. He was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, and entered military service in 1895. Two years later, he was diagnosed with a heart problem and was discharged. He drifted from job to job and in 1911, he found work selling pencil sharpeners. Because he had plenty of free time during this period, he started reading pulp fiction magazines. He thought that if people were getting paid for writing such rot, then he could write stories which were just as rotten. After seven years of being paid low wages he began writing his own fiction. The first Tarzan and John Carter stories were published in 1912.