JOHN CARTER OF MARS: 1964. J. Allen 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: 1931. Laurence Herndon Edition
This alternate jacket uses the Blue Book magazine cover art by Laurence Herndon that the publisher, Metropolitan, originally intended for the book. Burroughs, thinking of a different artist whom he didn't like at all, expressed his dislike and dragged his feet on the idea. Metropolitan went back to the drawing board and the published jacket used a much weaker painting by in-house artist Hugh Hutton. This jacket also features seldom-seen cover art of ERB 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. Fits the Metropolitan first edition and the Grosset and Dunlap reprints. READ MORE. . . — Limited to 100 copies: $40.00
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS: 1920.o 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. Fits the A.C. McClurg first edition and the Grosset and Dunlap reprints — Limited to 100 copies: $40.00
SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR: 1963.oooooo 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 and Dick Lupoff, editor at Canaveral in 1963, have been very happy with this. — Limited to 100 copies: $40.00