{"id":13527,"date":"2015-02-16T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2015-02-15T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T17:00:36","slug":"books-too-rich-for-my-blood-the-martian-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13527","title":{"rendered":"Books Too Rich for My Blood: The Martian Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people seem to think I collect every damn SF\/F\/H book that comes down the pike, but this simply isn’t true. There are large swathes of horror I don’t read or collect and I’ve skipped the vast majority of bug-crushing high fantasy.<\/p>\n

Finally, there are books that are just too ridiculously expensive for me to pick up.<\/p>\n

The Martian Legion<\/b><\/a> is one of those books.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Martian Legion<\/b> is a Tarzan\/John Carter crossover book authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate created, backed and penned by longtime Texas SF writer and comic books dealer Jake “Buddy” Saunders. It’s a very elaborate, lavishly illustrated production, with five different states<\/a>, the most expensive of which comes in an edition of three, with a commemorative platinum coin, for a cool $15,000. (The cheapest is $200, and the only edition without a presentation box.)<\/p>\n

Will they sell? Dunno. The Burroughs collector market is a world unto itself<\/a>. They may fly off the shelves at the next Dum Dum…<\/p>\n

(Hat tip: Howard Waldrop.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people seem to think I collect every damn SF\/F\/H book that comes down the pike, but this simply isn’t true. There are large swathes of horror I don’t read or collect and I’ve skipped the vast majority of bug-crushing high fantasy. Finally, there are books that are just too ridiculously expensive for me to… Continue reading Books Too Rich for My Blood: The Martian Legion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1114,97,1890,1397,1970],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-edgar-rice-burroughs","tag-first-edition","tag-jake-buddy-saunders","tag-limited-editions","tag-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13534,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}