Corrections and additions

This page includes any correction and additions related to the original 1st editions website: https://sites.google.com/site/erburroughsuk1steditions/ plus other relevant material. (For some reason I'm unable to update this website!)

All these updates have been taken from The British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society Facebook page.

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- With regard to; The Land of Hidden Men; The Eternal Savage; and The Lost Continent. Jim Burns wrote to the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society to say that he was pretty certain he recognised the style of Bob Fowke as the cover artist and Dave Pether (who did the Tandem covers for: The Moon Maid; The Moon Men; The Land That Time Forgot; and The People That Time Forgot), confirmed that he did the cover for the third book in the series, Out of Time's Abyss.

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- The Mad King has been published in the UK under the title 'The King and the Woman' and was published in Penny Magazine in 1922. However, it is possible they only published the first half of the book.

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- The Green Dragon books were specially adapted for children by Gordon Landsborough. They did the first four Mars novels and seven Tarzan books (Jewels of Opar was split over two books - making 8 books in total), all of which were illustrated by Edward Mortlemans. His cover for The Warlord of Mars had John Carter facing what was meant to be that fiercest of monsters at the North pole - the apt - but doesn't quite pull it off. At least it gives us another artists interpretation of this rarely seen beast.

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- Josh Kirby did not do the cover for Tarzan and the Castaways, but it was in fact Giorgio de Gaspari. His original artwork came up for auction recently and someone posted it on one of the ERB facebook groups without realising the contribution he was making at uncovering the artist. He may also have done the cover for 'Madman' although there is speculation that someone called Renna was responsible. It's possible that Richard Clifton-Dey did the cover of NELs Pirates of Venus, Synthetic Men of Mars and Warlord of Mars. Compare these paintings with Lost on Venus and Carson of Venus. The prominent figure in the front with distant background material and the upper arm bands is common between all of them. Speculation of course and we shall probably never know for sure unless original art comes to light with a signature.

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- Mark Goulden (publisher) and W.H. Allen (distributor) began to publish many of Burroughs books beginning in 1949, in a haphazard way it has to be said as they certainly never followed the normal sequence of the series, they would quite often take one of the U.S. covers, give it to another artist, and let him paint his own interpretation of it. But not always. On occasions the books were published more than once and with different cover paintings.

Take for example Tarzan Lord of the Jungle. An unknown artist has Tarzan fighting a lion. (This particular edition saw two printings differed only by the back cover and the spine text either bottom to top (1st) or vice versa (2nd)). The third printing had the original painting masked over by a black & white drawing by Studley Burroughs (swiped from the frontispiece of Tarzan the Invincible - thanks to Michael Tierney for that info). The fourth printing has a new cover known only by his initials of G.R.R. Goulden & Allen in their Pinnacle format, also published this title with a new cover by James E. McConnell in 1958.

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NEL publishers issued this final volume (John Carter of Mars) 5 times, two under the 4 Square banner in March 1967 and June 1968, and then under NEL in August 1972, February 1973 and finally in May 1975. There is some debate about the date of the first 4 square edition, it would appear that there was an edition in March 1967 although the June edition stated 'first time in paperback' on the front cover. The copyright page does give a 1967 date ==================================================================================

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From 28th April, 1934 until 21st July, 1934, Tit-Bits serialized Tarzan and the Lion Man in 13 parts. illustrator unknown. This is the first appearance of the book in the UK.

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