Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Octavo, original blue cloth, front cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the penultimate work in Burroughs’ richly imaginative Venus series, inscribed on the cartographic endpaper by Burroughs, “To -, With best wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs,” in scarce original dust jacket.Įscape on Venus, the fourth in Burroughs’ inventive five-volume Venus saga, follows Carson Napier and Princess Duare in a series of perilous encounters with strange and often monstrous humans: the fish-like Myposans who enslave Napier and Duare the plant-like Brokols with their “sickly greenish hue” the deceptively friendly Vooyorgans, who drug and paralyze their human captives to display them in a ghastly museum, and the Cloud People-who live amidst fierce battles between the Falsans and Pangans in ships armed with ray guns. Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, (1946). ![]() INSCRIBED BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, FIRST EDITION OF ESCAPE ON VENUSīURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. ![]()
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