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"Forgive me!" said the man in a low voice. "Let my great love be my excuse—that, and the belief that I have but a moment more of life," and with the words he turned to meet the foremost of the green warriors.
Carthoris, THUVIA, MAID OF MARS
[Image: St. John, 1st edition art] #ERB
What, pray, is the pleasure of doing an easy thing?
THE GODS OF MARS, Ch. 10
#OTD in 1918, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of #ERB's THE GODS OF MARS, which featured dust-jacket and frontispiece art by Frank E. Schoonover. #JohnCarter #Barsoom #ERBUniverse
The previous record for a #Frazetta/#ERB painting was $1,075,500 including buyer's premium for AT THE EARTH'S CORE (1974), sold at auction in 2016: https://t.co/LO7xmbmOBW
#FrankFrazetta @frazettagirls #Pellucidar #ERBUniverse
Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of over eighty novels and often called "The Master of Adventure," was born in Chicago this day in 1875.
[Image: Thomas Yeates]
Ray Bradbury was born 100 years ago today in Waukegan, IL. He was a huge fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs and said his very first story, written as a pre-teen, was a sequel to one of #ERB's Barsoom novels.
#RayBradbury #RayBradburyCentennial #RDB
In 2016, Frank Frazetta's "At the Earth's Core" sold at auction for a record $1,075,500 including buyer's premium: https://t.co/Murw0jhge7.
I expect that #Frazetta's "A Princes of Mars" will top that: https://t.co/LO7xmbmOBW
#FrankFrazetta #ERB #JohnCarter #DejahThoris #Barsoom
#OTD in 1941, Manuel Pérez Clemente, better known as Sanjulián, was born in Barcelona.
Here are some of the artist's #ERB-related images: #Tarzan, #JohnCarter and #DejahThoris, #MoonMaid, and THE LOST CONTINENT. #ERBUniverse
Thank God for everything.
Sandra Pickerall, TARZAN AND THE MADMAN, Ch. 33
#ERB's twenty-third Tarzan novel was rejected many times over during his lifetime, and do the first edition was published posthumously (Canaveral Press, 1964) with Reed Crandall's cover and interior art.
#OTD in 1925, Ulysses Paxton wrote to #ERB about his experiences on #Barsoom. Burroughs began writing THE MASTER MIND OF MARS on the same date.
Text: opening paragraphs of Paxton's letter
Art: Frank R. Paul (1927), Bruce Pennington (1973), Michael Whelan (1979) #ERBUniverse