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SCIENCE FICTION-ILLUSTRATION] BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. Pirates of Venus . Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., (1934). First edition (stated), inscribed by the illustrator J. Allen St. John. Original cloth in dust jacket. 7 3/8 x 5 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 314, [2] pp., illustrated with five plates by J. Allen St, John. Jacket lacking a portion of the spine, separated on the front spine fold, light wear; Together with the pencil drawing for the plate opposite p.274, drawing in pencil on illustrator's tissue, inscribed in the lower margin by St. John, dated October 1938. A small section missing from the lower left corner, affecting a small portion of the design; And a second drawing, unsigned, presumably unused or for a different work as it does not appear in Pirates of Venus. C