The Chessmen of Mars

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The Chessmen of Mars (1922)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The "Tarzan" Series
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Never has such a character come to you from the pages of a book; never has the human brain conceived so strange a creation as Tarzan, the Ape-man.

Everybody is reading and talking of the wonderful "TARZAN" Novels, which now comprise the following:

THE CHESSMEN OF MARS

"Turan, the Slave!" they cried "Death to him!"

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The Chessmen
of Mars


BY


EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Author of At The Earth's Core; Tarzan
the Terrible
; The Mucker; Thuvia,
Maid of Mars
, Etc.


Illustrated by
J. ALLEN ST. JOHN



CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1922

Copyright
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1922


Published November, 1922


Copyrighted in Great Britain

Printed in the United States of America

M. A. DONOHUE & CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO

ILLUSTRATIONS

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  2. "Turan, the Slave!" they cried "Death to him!"
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    Frontispiece
  3. "The Princess Comes! Dejah Thoris! The Princess Comes!"
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    8
  4. To the girl's horror, the headless body moved
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    104
  5. Only a single antagonist could face him at a time upon the narrow stairway
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    144
  6. A giant Martian rat was gnawing upon his arm!
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    194
  7. O-Tar's sword slipped from his nerveless fingers
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    238
  8. Gahan of Gathol smote the man from his mount
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    292
  9. Gahan looked in upon a small chamber dimly lighted
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    350

The "Martian" Series
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs

An absorbing series of Adventures and Romance forty-three million miles from Earth. It is hardly too much to say it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation.

Only the man who created TARZAN, the Ape-man, could have written these amazing stories, of which the following titles are now ready:


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1950, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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