Updates:  Tarzan of the Apes - The Artist Edition


We'll be adding regular updates for TARZAN of the APES - The Artist Edition   here.  Scroll down for the latest post.   If you have any questions, email me at  jim@erbbooks.com. 
Jan. 14, 2021  
  • Pre-Orders have been brisk for ToA. If you ordered A Princess of Mars - The Manuscript Edition we'll continue to hold your corresponding number for Tarzan of the Apes until the end of the month.  But if you've not pre-ordered by then or contacted us, we'll release those numbers to new customers. 
  • New Ship Date - Late March/Mid April.  We are experiencing several delays as we prepare to take the book to production.   Each book & box requires almost one square yard (9 sf) of  leather for production.  We've been informed that our order of 700 yards of Eurobond Marsala Flanders leather coming from the tannery in Spain will be delayed by at least two weeks.
  • Two Dust Jackets:  One dust jacket will be a based on the classic Tarzan of the Apes 1st edition dust jacket illustration and design by Fred Arting.  In addition we've commissioned two  double panel wide paintings  for this edition.  Daren Bader's painting is featured on the landing page of the erbbooks.com website.  And Sanjulian has created a beautiful painting (see close-up above) that masterfully captures Tarzan's epic battle scene with Kerchak in grand fashion.   One painting will be used for the second dust jacket and the other one will be used for full color endpapers.   ​


​Feb. 4, 2021  
Just sent out an update email to our mailing list.  You can view it here. 
It's amazing to see this edition come together.  In the past few month we've added Neal Adams art to the edition and he'll be signing all the editions.  In addition, the Sanjulian dust jacket painting in amazing!   It's worth getting the edition just for the  22 Zdenek Burian illustrations for Tarzan of the Apes.  Tom Yeates will be writing the artist's  preface and signing the book.  He also heavily contributed illustrations for the book.  There will be an 8-page fold-out of four of the best Tarzan artists with Tarzan illustrations side by side: Foster, Hogarth, Kubert and Adams.   Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize winning author has written the foreword and will be signing the book.  The list goes on and on. 
Interview with Bob Eggleton Featuring Our Commission for LAND OF TERROR - Click Here
"RECREATING MARS and OTHER LOCALES" An Interview with Jim Gerlach of ERBbooks  www.bookjudgement.com/blog/         If you stumbled upon a case of metal printing plates for some of the most seminal works in American publishing, what would you do? Sell them on eBay? Create plate crafts on Etsy? Well, if you were Jim Gerlach you would create a publishing company from scratch, learning everything you needed to know about printing and bookmaking to accurately recreate these lost treasures of history. We called Jim up to discuss his books, their history, and his plans for recreating some of the best loved works in English literature.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 




BOOK TRAILER FOR THE ERB LIMITED EDITION of....
JOHN CARTER OF MARS

Our goal is to produce the ultimate ERB books ever published.  We feel like this is our best effort yet.  The set includes authorized signed and numbered Grosset & Dunlap and ERB Inc. editions in slipcases with different bindings, dust jackets and frontispieces.  Each set includes a matching number coin and additional bonus material.    

Books are scheduled to ship on or before Feb. 28, 2019. 
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     THE MAKING OF THE PUBLISHER'S LIMITED                EDITION OF BACK TO THE STONE AGE(2015) 
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The video to the left shows Rob LoMascolo letterpress printing The Publisher's Edition of Back to the Stone Age  by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  This was the first book published by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. since I Am A Barbarian was released in 1967.   It was also the first ERB Inc. book to feature multiple color illustrations (including original paintings by Thomas Grindberg and Bob Eggleton) or to be boxed, signed or numbered.  The text was printed using the original 300 1 lb. printing plates used for the 1937 first edition.   Each book was presented in a custom clamshell box that also housed one of the original printing plates.   The edition was limited to 300 signed and numbered sets and is sold out.  

 (below) These pictures show the binding and fulfillment  process for the book.  The first picture is the first copy off the press - lettered "A" and presented to Jim Sullos and Cathy Wilbanks of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. for the company archives.   It features an original sketch by Thomas Grindberg.
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