{"id":864,"date":"2017-12-10T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:13:11","slug":"getting-through-the-land-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/getting-through-the-land-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting through the Land of Terror!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Having finally determined, to everyone\u2019s satisfaction, what the title lettering on the Grosset & Dunlap edition will look like, I\u2019m ready to finish up the dust-jackets and bookmarks for the new Jim Gerlach ERB Books\/ERB, Inc. publications of LAND OF TERROR<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

I still have to finish the Smilodon head silhouette and the layout for the spine binding stamp that will also be used on the slipcases.<\/p>\r\n

These two editions, the ERB, Inc. and the Grosset & Dunlap, will be valuable for their use of the John Coleman Burroughs chapter head-pieces (see above)<\/em> drawn for the first edition but never published. Why they were not used in 1944 we will probably never know. Perhaps, as Bob Zeuschner suggests, it was a war-time cost-cutting decision about the expense of the line cuts needed. However, there are large spaces below the chapter numbers in the 1944 first edition where the drawings could have easily been inserted. The layout looks very much as though it had been planned to have the head-pieces. Though there are 28 chapters in the book, there are only 27 head-piece drawings. The first picture depicts an incident which begins in chapter 2, on page 16, and culminates on page 18 when a canoe full of large, bearded men hurl torches with thick, resinous smoke at David Innes and his companions as they try to navigate a Pellucidarian river.<\/p>\r\n

Though there is space for it under the chapter 1 numeral, there doesn\u2019t appear to be a head-piece for the opening chapter. But then, the first chapter is really more of an introduction rather than a story chapter anyway. There is a full-page illustration that was obviously planned as a frontispiece facing the title page, but that was not used either.<\/p>\r\n

All of these drawings were printed for the first time in David Innes of Pellucidar\u00a0<\/em>published by Vern Coriell\u2019s House of Greystoke in 1968 for The Burroughs Bibliophiles. You can see that they were intended as line cuts by JCB\u2019s use of Craftint Doubletone board with its tell-tale cross-hatching. This was the same shading method used by many comic strip artists of the era, particularly Roy Crane and his assistant Leslie Turner on \u201cWash Tubbs\u201d and \u201cBuz Sawyer.\u201d Check out Guy Lawley\u2019s Legion of Andy blog: https:\/\/legionofandy.com\/2016\/08\/26\/ben-day-dots-part-8-1930s-to-1950s-the-golden-age-of-comics\/<\/a> for a wonderfully detailed explanation of how comics were produced, \u201cback in the day.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The other things that make these reprints worthwhile are the colored versions of Roy Krenkel\u2019s illustrations from the Canaveral edition of 1963, the Frank Frazetta covers from the Ace paperbacks of 1964 and 1973, art from Joe Jusko, and two manuscript pages in Burroughs\u2019 own handwriting.<\/p>\r\n

The original JCB painting for the first edition has been re-photographed by Rob Greer and I\u2019ve done some reconstruction work to fill in the art that was covered by the matting that surrounds it in its present frame. That\u2019s going to go on the ERB, Inc. edition, of course. I had to digitally cut out all the title lettering from the original dust-jacket so it could be placed over the newly photographed art. We made a few changes to the positions of certain elements on the front cover and spine to make them read a bit better. In those ways this jacket is sharper than the original.<\/p>\r\n

The G&D edition features a beautiful new wraparound painting by Bob Eggleton for a cover that will knock your socks off. We\u2019re putting title lettering on it in a style that refers back to the original JCB edition, sort of \u201cclosing the circle\u201d so to speak.<\/p>\r\n

You can order these new editions at https:\/\/www.erbbooks.com\/store\/c4\/LAND_OF_TERROR_LIMITED_EDITIONS.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Thanks for sticking with Recoverings and bringing your friends in on the \u201clikes.\u201d Even if you\u2019re not collecting Edgar Rice Burroughs first edition books, you should take a look at the art prints I\u2019ve produced from the dust-jacket art. My restoration of the J. Allen St. John painting for \u201cTarzan at the Earth\u2019s Core\u201d is a closeup look at one of his best cover paintings. Go to https:\/\/www.recoverings.com\/artprints.html<\/a> and click on number 4.<\/p>\r\nDon’t forget the “Leave a comment” link is up at the top left of the post. Please feel free to make your questions, statements, delightful additions by clicking up there and leaving some words of your own.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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