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The Complete Moon Trilogy: The Moon Maid, The Moon Men & The Red Hawk

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When I saw these new editions and the beautiful lettering and cover designs, I knew I had to buy these great Burroughs classics all over again. How nice to get the Moon series all collected into one Trilogy addition. I have my old Frazetta cover paperbacks, but sometimes the type size they used for those old editions was uncomfortably small to fit the desire for a small page count I guess. Now we have the Moon Trilogy handsomely collected in one large size volume, which is I believe, a first. Thanks for these books! I'm looking forward to visiting Pellucidar, Venus, and Mars again, too!

Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions. These usually contain 2 books of the different ERB major series in order - thus far John Carter, Pellucidar, and Carson of Venus. In the future, possibly Tarzan!
These books are handsome and my rating is mainly based on this - the ERB fan knows best about the rest of it.
The Complete Mooon Trilogy is one of ERB's successes. It is science fiction adventure but more than that. It contains a bit of anti-totaliarism, sociology, speculative fictiom, and look into the future. Definitely near the top of the Burroughs opus.

I have a whole collection of ERB books, including the whole Barsoom and Venus series. I also have an older edition of the Moon Maid, republished here. The writing is great, but the editing in this edition is shameful. There are constant typoes, ranging from misplaced punctuation and capital letters to completely extraneous words. At one point, the Moon is mistakenly referred to as "Union". Where that might have come from, I can't imagine. What really puts the burr in my saddle is that I deliberately chose the hardcover, because I wanted to be able to keep the book for a long time. I don't recommend that choice. Get the paperback for the story, without considering any keepsake value.