Edgar Rice Burroughs: Dust Jacket and Flap Text

[Matt C]

Hi folks.

I'm putting together "definitive" ebook versions for my Kindle of some of ERB's fantasy novels. I'm on Tanar of Pellucidar at the moment and I wonder if someone has access to the dust jacket and flap text of the first edition hardcover - I think this one has a wraparound with only flap text. There are plenty of images online but the text is just too small to read. There seems to be some quite meaty and enticing text for the book on the front flap, and something for one of the Tarzan novels on the rear flap.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

[dfloyd]

Easton Press of the leather bound books fame, has recently published Burroughs' first six Tarzan novels. They are the standard Easton Press fare, but the frontispiece piece of each book is the full-color rendering of the original dust cover. The books are: Tarzan of the Apes, Beasts of Tarzan, The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, and The Son of Tarzan. For the quality, these reproductions are not badly priced at about $60 each. When a child, I had all the Tarzan books, I seem to remember there were 23 novels with one (Jungle Tales) being short stories. They were published during WWII, but the paper was so bad that they all disintegrated in a few years.

If you're a Tarzan fan, think about buying them for your wife. A wonderful brthday gift.

[dfloyd]

Easton Press of the leather bound books fame, has recently published Burroughs' first six Tarzan novels. They are the standard Easton Press fare, but the frontispiece of each book is the full-color rendering of the original dust cover. The books are: Tarzan of the Apes, Beasts of Tarzan, The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, and The Son of Tarzan. For the quality, these reproductions are not badly priced at about $60 each. When a child, I had all the Tarzan books. I seem to remember there were 23 novels with one (Jungle Tales) being short stories. They were published during WWII, but the paper was so bad that they all disintegrated in a few years.

If you're a Tarzan fan, think about buying them for your wife. A wonderful brthday gift!

[mtpspur]

You should be able to find this information on a website devoted to Burroughs I believe it's under ERB-dom--which was originally a magazine from the 60s and ultimately turned in a website. They have a TON of information on Burroughs. Many if not all of the pulp/book covers are there. The site can be spot checked by topic. Enjoy. There were actually 24 Tarzan books collected altogethger and The Jungle Twins was a sort of Tarzan book that most disregard as it was written for the younger audience. Pelluicidar has seven books, Mars 11 and Venus five for that matter. Thanks for keeping Burroughs alive for me.

[Matt C]

Oh indeed. I'm mining that site. The dust jacket images are just slightly too small to make out the text which is annoying. I'll have to look for an email contact.

I've managed to grab the blurb for The Land That Time Forgot, At the Earth's Core, and Pellucidar so far - some of it is even as good as the stories themselves; they really knew how to sell a book! I'm working on Tanar of Pellucidar and Tarzan at the Earth's Core right now but can't read that text so will have to delve deeper. It'll be extremely frustrating if I can't source it as I'm trying to out-do all the other public domain Kindle versions.

[dfloyd]

I must have been missing one as a child. I think Tarzan and the Ant Men was last one written. The Tarzan dust covers were quite good. The were probably oil paintings since when they were created the air brush was not in wide use. The NC Wyeth illustrations for adventure novels, such as The Last of the Mohicans, were oils. Quite a bit of work went into illustrations in those days. Anyone know a website which lists all the Tarzan novels?

Last year, I finished reading Tarzan of the Apes, The Beasts of Tarzan, and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. I hadn't read these in over 50 years. I was impressed by the vocabulary used by Burroughs, as well as the suspense he managed to maintain throughout the novels. I first read these when I was 8-10 years old. While kids of today, are often computer experts, Burroughs' vocabulary would probably be beyond today's ten year olds.

[mtpspur]

Tarzan and the Ant Men was book 10. Tarzan and the CAstaways was #24 and last published though it really consists of some novelettes. What the hey--here goes: T of the Apes, Return, Beasts of, Son of, T and Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of of T, T the Untamed, T the Terrible, T and the Golden Lion, T and the Ant Men, T, Lord of the Jungle, T and the Lost Empire, T at the Earth's Core, T the Invincible, T Triumphant, T and the City og Gold, T and the Lion Man, Leopard Men, T's Quest, T and the Forbidden City, T the Magnificnet, T and the Foreign Legion (the real last book Burrughs wrote aboyt T), T and the Mad Man, T and the Castaways--publuhsed posthumously. I reread parts of Return a couple of years ago here inline but currently own ony the Venus series from Ace paperbacks and the MAd King--a favorite of the non-seoes even though it was interwritten with Thje Eternal Savge (Lover) which also has Tarzan in a cameo. And last but not least The Tarzan Twins.