IN my checkered career I’ve been an actor, a puppeteer, a musician, a comic book artist, a layout and background designer for Saturday morning animation, a teacher of graphic design, typography and lettering, a newspaper advertising art director and a designer of leather bindings.
This site and blog are devoted to my project of reconstructing all the dust jackets for the first editions of the adventure novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a master storyteller and creator of the iconic character Tarzan. Through my posts I’ll be letting you know what stage I’m at in the project and using this as a sort of work diary. I’ll also post little essays or notations about whatever I find in the way of typographical or design tidbits.
Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think or what you’d like to see here.
I am looking to buy the entire Tarzan Dustjacket set. Do they say facimile anywhere?
All my dust jackets have a line of type which designates them as facsimiles. This is done for bibliographic veracity. Though it is quite easy to tell a facsimile, ink-jet print from an original, offset print, if you know what to look for, there is a vast difference in value. These are not counterfeits and I would not want them to be passed off as originals. In fact, the late Danton Burroughs, grandson of ERB, always told me that I made my dust jackets look better than the originals.