The Planet of Peril
New York: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1929. First edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth, titled and decorated in black, in Robert Graef dust jacket ($2.00). 358 pp. 7.5" x 5" Heavy fading and some soiling to lower spine, wear extremities, particularly bottom edge of front board, very good minus in deficient dust jacket, lacking lower two-thirds of spine panel, chipping to extremities and joints, spots of rubbing, fading, and soiling, front flap and spine joints tape-repaired verso, in mylar cover. Item #244402
A VENUSIAN REVOLT IN THE SHADOW OF BURROUGHS
The first volume in Otis Adelbert Kline’s “Grandon” trilogy, The Planet of Peril launches a planetary sword-play adventure written in open imitation of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Its hero, Robert Grandon, becomes entangled in a Venusian slave rebellion, setting the pattern for the interplanetary exploits that follow. The novel first appeared serially in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1929 before publication in book form later that year.
This first edition, along with retaining its original dust jacket, is additionally distinguished by Kline’s signature on the front free endpaper.
[Anatomy of Wonder, 3-31; Curry, 280; Bleiler, 171].
Price: $325.00