If
you were
an
aviator
living
in
Kansas
City and
you took
off one
fine
morning
for New
York and
landed
in Los
Angeles,
that
would be
something
-- it
would
give you
quite a
laugh.
But
suppose
that you
had
taken
off for
Mars and
landed
on
Venus!
Could
you
laugh
that
off!
that is
precisely
what
Carson
Napier
did --
so, we
don't he
laugh it
of; he
landed
on
Venus.
how it
all
happened
and what
happened
to him
is told
in this
new
novel of
high
imaginative
fiction
by the
creator
of John
Carter
whose
adventures
on Mars
have
intrigued
millions
of
readers
during
the past
twenty
years.
Beneath
the
impenetrable
cloud
envelope
of
Venus,
twenty-six
million
miles
from
Kansas
City,
you will
see
plant
trees
swinging
their
mighty
heads.
$20.00
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Only
Lost
on Venus
Mr.
Burroughs'
first
story
the
action
of which
takes
place on
the
planet
Venus,
Pirates
of
Venus,
met with
such
immediate
success
that he
is
following
it with
this,
his
second
Venus
story,
continuing
the
remarkable
adventures
of
Carson
Napier
in the
weird
unearthly
surroundings
of the
Shepherd's
Star.
Here
again
Napier
pursues
his
hopleless
love for
the
unattainable
daughter
of a
Venuvian
emperor,
which
lands
him into
the
trackless
waste of
a remote
and
unexplored
Venuvian
continent.
Strange
and
terrible
beasts
and even
more
terrible
luck
beset
his path
until,
at last,
he comes
to the
perfect
city
where
science,
justice
and
intelligence
rule
supreme;
while
across
the
broad
river
upon
which
this
city
lies
hunts
the
dark,
forbidding
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Dustjacket
Only
Carson
of Venus
Adventure!
Love!
Romance!
You will
find all
these
and more
twenty-six
million
miles
from all
the
cares
and
worries
of
everyday
life,
between
the
covers
of this
latest
novel by
the man
who
created
John
Carter
of
Barsoom,
David
Innes of
Pellucidar,
Billy
Bryne,
Tarzan
of the
Apes,
and many
another
famous
character,
among
whom
Carson
of Venus
has
taken
his
place,
unashamed
and
unafraid,
a worthy
companion
in this
splendid
company.
With his
beloved
Duare he
finds
thrills,
danger,
intrigue,
new
enemies,
and new
friends
in
strange
lands
and on
lonely,
uncharted
seas
among
warrior
women,
revolutionists,
thieves,
murderers,
and
staunch
friends.
From
cover to
cover
the book
is
packed
with
thrill
upon
thrill
in the
same
Burroughs
style
that has
fascinated
his
countless
millions
of
readers
in every
civilized
country
of the
world
and
resulted
in the
translation
of his
stories
into
fifty-seven
languages
and
dialects,
into
Esperanto,
into
Braille
for the
blind;
and kept
Burroughs
pictures
almost
constantly
on the
motion
picture
screens
of the
world
for more
than two
decenniums.
While
the last
moving
action
will
hold the
breathless
interest
of
readers
of all
ages and
both
sexes,
its
satirical
vein
will
appeal
to and
amuse
adults
especially.
It is a
book
that can
be
recommended
to
red-blooded
readers
of all
ages.
