JOHN CARTER OF MARS—
J. Allan St. John/John Coleman Burroughs Edition

This brand new alternate jacket for the 1964 Canaveral Press edition pays a special tribute to two great names connected to Edgar Rice Burroughs.

First, to J. Allan St. John by using his cover for JOHN CARTER AND THE GIANT OF MARS from the "Amazing Stories" January, 1941 issue.

And secondly, to John Coleman Burroughs, the actual author of that particular tale by using the logo lettering from his John Carter comic strip, a spine illustration from the strip and by emulating his signature in the author byline.

The back cover shows reproductions of both the original pulp magazine covers for GIANT and for SKELETON MEN OF JUPITER, the second story in the book.

— Limited to 100 copies:
$40.00

A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS—
Laurence Herndon Edition

Now available, this alternate jacket uses the "Blue Book" cover art by Laurence Herndon that the publisher, Metropolitan, originally intended for the book.

ERB was thinking of a different artist whom he didn't like at all, so he dragged his feet on the idea. The published jacket used a very weak painting by Hugh Hutton.

This jacket also features cover art of foreign editions that were intended to go on the back panel

For the full story read Robert R. Barrett's revealing article in the "Burroughs Bulletin" #45.

— Limited to 100 copies:
$40.00

SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR—
J. Allen St. John 4-color Edition

This was the first alternate ERB jacket I produced.

Suggested to me by D. Peter Ogden, publisher of ERBANIA the Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzine from Tampa, Florida, when I was first showing my jacket reconstructions at the 1999 Dum-Dum in Tarzana.

Peter asked if I could create a jacket for the Canaveral edition of SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR using the cover of "Fantastic Adventures" from March, 1942. He loaned me a copy of the cover and I digitally painted out all the lettering. I created a new title block by referencing the many lettering samples in Dr. Darrell C. Richardson's book, J.ALLEN ST. JOHN, AN ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Many fans, including Danton Burroughs himself, have been very happy with this.

— Limited to 100 copies:
$40.00

Not everyone is as finicky as I am. There are just a few changes I would have made if I had been the Art Director at McClurg, Metropolitan and Canaveral Press. I'm sure there were good reasons why these jackets weren't produced at the time, but that's no problem for this revisionist designer. These are for the hard-core collector who wants to indulge in a little wish fulfillment.

All dust jacket replicas are full-size and include all the original text on back cover and end flaps. Scroll down to see all currently available Alternate jackets.

THUVIA, MAID OF MARS—
J. Allen St. John Edition

I designed this jacket to continue the run of St. John covers on the Mars books. This image was chosen because I thought that the unfinished painting in the Vinson Collection, had been done in the Twenties. That led me to believe that St. John was expecting to do the jacket art. Besides that it matches the frontispiece illustration which was usually a black and white version of the dust jacket painting.

Recently I discovered that the painting had actually been started at the request of Vern Coriell, founder of the Burroughs Bibliophiles. Even so, it's still a powerful image and worthy of a color treatment.

— Limited to 100 copies:
$40.00