100 years ago today, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE GODS OF MARS, which featured dust-jacket and frontispiece art by Frank E. Schoonover.
This is the second book in the Barsoom series and many fans consider it the best.

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『大学の親分』(1978〜79)扉絵。Frontispiece from "Daigaku no Oyabun"

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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."
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS, Ch. 10
[J. Allen St. John frontispiece]

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in 1914, completed his fourth Mars novel, THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (originally titled CARTHORIS for its protagonist, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris). The first edition featured St. John interior art, including a frontispiece image from a scene in Chapter 10.

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Frontispiece by William Heath Robinson for The Book of Witches (1908)

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The Deluge. Frontispiece for Bible (c.1866-1900) by Gustave Doré https://t.co/VCroPCPIfk

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"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." William Blake, born 1757
The Ancient of Days, published as the frontispiece to 1794's, Europe a Prophecy, shows the biblical character Urizen crouching in the sky, his outstretched hand setting a compass to the Earth below

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Happy to share this frontispiece illustration I did for the limited edition of the new & novel : Widow's Point.
The limited edition sold out in less than 12h!

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The classic St. John frontispiece illustrating the foregoing scene from THUVIA, MAID OF MARS, 1st ed. (1920)

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W. V. Cockburn illustration to stories Under The Sunset 1882 with frontispiece by William Fitzgerald

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Carroll's poll to mothers -on if the Jabberwock, originally the frontispiece, was too terrible a monster & likely to alarm nervous children.

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Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827), for the frontispiece of 'The English Dance of Death' by William Combe (1815).

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St. John's THUVIA, MAID OF MARS frontispiece image, via : https://t.co/8jy7EqUvmr

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Frontispiece to sequence of 13 images depicting the Welsh myth of Ceridwen and Taliesin - I will serialise them each Sunday at 8pm!

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Frontispiece of the "Harmonia Macrocosmica" (1660) of Andreas Cellarius https://t.co/AHGm91DXwb

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Frontispiece in Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's "Arcana naturae detecta", 1722 ed. https://t.co/1BSzXfczki

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Huckleberry Hound, based on frontispiece from 1884 edition of Huckleberry Finn

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This early printed Greek New Testament, from 1735, has a beautiful engraved frontispiece. … https://t.co/zCefcToIbB

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Frontispiece to ‘Tales of Terror’ by Matthew Lewis, 1808 edition.

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