Recent customer comments -



- The Krenkel Smilodon poster arrived today along with the extra ETERNAL LOVER poster. While I agree that the Smilodon poster is fairly rough, it compares

nicely with Charles R. Knight's 1903 painting of old S. fatalis roaring his defiance at the world. I trained in zoology and have always had an interest in

paleontology and still fondly remember picking up the Ace edition of AT THE EARTH'S CORE while in junior high (I couldn't believe the quality of Krenkel's art

and assumed it was a period piece from the pulps). I finally realized that ERB wasn't just a name on the cover of Tarzan comics but an actual author. All of

those old Ace, Ballantine, Canaveral, and earlier editions have resided in my library for decades and any of the older editions that I bought without jackets

are now modestly covered. I just finished re-reading LAND OF TERROR in the recent Grosset & Dunlap special edition and have ordered a copy of SAVAGE

PELLUCIDAR. These are expensive bur exceptionally well produced.



- I read your book recently and just wanted to say how much I enjoyed it. Lots of interesting and informative articles, and I liked your personal story about

meeting Edgar Rice Burroughs's son. I also admire your very colourfully illustrated website.

I am writing from London and it was at home there in my early teens when (I'm guessing it was 1975 for the anniversary of ERB's birth) the BBC showed all

the Johnny Weismuller films. That led to a family discussion about which was more realistic Weismuller or Ron Ely's portrayal of Tarzan and a relative

encouraged me to read the original Tarzan of the Apes book. I was fascinated from the start and moved by the ending (his noble act of self renunciation).

From then on I was hooked on ERB's wonderfully imaginative and exciting books in every genre (buying them second hand or new as I could manage) and

did get a nice response from Danton Burroughs after sending an enquiry. I still have the paperbacks and the lavish Irwin Porges biography, the former

which I have added to or re-read every once in a while.

By the way there have been some great portrayals of Tarzan, even if not true to the book, but for me Ron Ely stands out.

Work, home and community activities take up quite a bit of time so I have missed much of the incredible amount of ERB stuff on the internet but your book

has probably re-awakened my dormant interest (not that it was every far from the surface).



- Thanks for the Djs, especially the "pink" TotA and "The Monster Men. [If you are curious, you'll find the "pink" TotA here .}



- [This customer sent me a rebound book for which he wanted variant DJ. I had to resize almost from scratch, but it turned out well.] DJ looks great! Really perfect for

that book. Also, you were right about how good that painting looks as a DJ for a hardcover book



- { i recently had to delay preparing an order. I therefore sent a msg to the customer. His reply follows.] You have always been so great and your products are so great;

I could never be anything but pleased! I didn’t realize there had been any delay! Using your facsimile dust covers has enhanced the presentation of my

Burroughs books to an unexpected level and added to my joy of owning and displaying those precious gems of his imagination.Thank you for your part in

preserving his legacy!



- [ A customer recently purchased two posters. He sent the followng email and photo. ] The "ERB corner" in the "spare" bedroom (my bedroom) is looking better and better.















































- Just letting you know that your latest dust jackets for me arrived a couple days ago--perfect in every way.



- I want to thank you for the great collection of dust jackets I ordered, and also the fine book you sent along.



- I received my package in fine condition. Thank you so much for the additional jacket. You did a fantastic job on it. The dilemma now is, do I just change the

original or buy an additional book to cover it with. Take care and I hope this message finds you in good health.



- The covers arrived today and, of course, they are beautiful. It's difficult to express the emotion of seeing them on their books again--probably after about

55 years in my case.



- A great book. I’m sorry I’ve taken so long to get back to you but I’ve been “busy”. Not so busy that I wasn’t able to read it cover to cover. A lot of good

solid information with no fluff. Now that things are quieting down for me I want to get back to searching out more of ERB’s books. Of course your book

came with no damage. The way you package things how could there be any damage?



- I received the latest batch of DJs and they are terrific as usual. I now have 75 of your Variant DJs and all of my nearly 200 “keeper” Burroughs hardcovers

(I have another few hundred that I will be getting rid of) have an original DJ or a variant DJ or both. So, I will probably not be buying many more DJs in the

future. In any event, it has been a great pleasure doing business with you and I hope our paths cross again.



- Thank you for the Great dust jackets, They are beautiful!



- I’m not sure how many jackets I bought over the last year, and I’m not sure I want to know. But there were two sets of ERB books and one set of the Tom

Swifts, minus the ones I had in original dust jackets. There was a whole lot of ‘em, anyway. That’s the safest thing to say. Some of these books, when I

acquired them on eBay, came with reproduction jackets. But I could put them on the shelf side by side with yours and tell the difference. Poor paper, wrong

brightness, wrong color tone to the image – something was always off. Or the flaps weren’t full – they’d be cut off to fit the size of paper in a standard color

printer. Yours were far superior. I replaced all those amateurish reproduction jackets with yours.

I know there are some high-end makers of jackets for the ERB first editions, and their products look absolutely first rate, as you’ve noted on your website,

but there is a substantial price difference. If you’ve always read ERB in the Grosset and Dunlap editions, as I have, you’re the only one who sells jackets for

those. And if you’ve got a lot of books to cover – a whole lot – reprints and firsts -- I think you strike the right balance between quality and affordability.

I thought it amazing that you also had the Tom Swift series on your site as well. I already had the series, most of it jacketless. I guess we have the same

reading tastes. Great minds and all that. Your “cleaned up” series of jackets, with a white background, I would argue, offers an improvement on the

originals.

Now, if I could just find jackets for my Rover Boys set.



- I wanted to pass along a photo that may interest you. This is what the complete Tom Swift series looks like in a nice fresh set of your repro jackets. They

really dress those old books up! Certainly these jackets are an improvement over the unjacketed books, but I would say they also are an improvement over

the original jackets. The originals were rather crude to begin with, printed on what looks like brown shopping-bag paper, and they have only become more

unreadable over time with exposure to sunlight and acid decomposition.

My thought has always been that if you’re going to buy a repro dust jacket for an old book, it ought to look brand-new. These certainly do the trick!

Thanks for your good work on these. The Tom Swift books have earned a place of honor on my bookshelf alongside my Hardy Boys books and all those ERB

novels I covered earlier. Now I just need a bookshelf large enough to showcase them all!













































- The DJ order arrived today...first thank you for the two bonus jackets...the bonus Princess of Mars was much appreciated as I have two firsts - one without

a DJ, so it is now in use. I don't have a first of the Cave Girl but now I will have to put it on my later edition for fun.

Great...GREAT quality...it's fun to see my heretofore cover-less firsts with DJs for the first time in nearly 100 years...I'll be ordering for a few more of my DJ

less books....thanks, again...



- Letting you know I received my book cover today in great shape! Wanted to thank you & letting you know I need a couple more & will be ordering soon!

Take care!



- [ A customer in England mentioned in an email, that although his facsimile for The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County was beautiful, the fit on the book

seemed small. In response I corrected my printer settings which I thought might be the problem, reprinted the jacket, and mailed it as soon as I could.

His response follows.]

Sorry, I've not been in touch sooner; I've just returned home from the family summer holiday to find a replacement DJ for Deputy Sheriff waiting for me. I

feel a bit guilty about it as it really wasn't necessary for you to go to the trouble and expense of doing this; I was very happy with the original DJ and as I

stated [in my first email] I wasn't complaining, simply feeding back.

However, the replacement jacket is now absolutely perfect. There is no doubt it is a better fit than the original one that you sent. A beautiful job! I

cannot fault you on customer service here. You clearly take a pride in providing the best possible jackets that you can. Rest assured that when I am

ready for my next facsimile jacket you will hear from me! Thank you once again for all you have done to make me completely satisfied, which I am.



- I received the latest batch of DJs and they are terrific as usual. I now have 75 of your Variant DJs and all of my nearly 200 “keeper” Burroughs hardcovers

(I have another few hundred that I will be getting rid of) have an original DJ or a variant DJ or both. So, I will probably not be buying many more DJs in the

future. In any event, it has been a great pleasure doing business with you and I hope our paths cross again.



- This is a fan letter for your website. I just pulled out boxes of my comic book and book collection and started looking for DJs for my ERB books...and, of

course, I found you...and just placed an order for my first edition Tarzan books...when i find the remaining boxes of ERB books I'll be ordering for those, too.

Hard to believe that when I was buying these back in the late '50's and early '60's I'd pass up those books in almost new DJs for uncovered copies..but, hey,

to this kid born in 1948 the difference between .35 and a buck was almost two extra books! I "discovered" Tarzan when I was around 5 when my parents

bought me a Dell GIANT TARZAN...and they read and read it to me...I was hooked...my first Tarzan books were the G&D books when I was around 9 ...a local

book store had one in the kids' section; I cajoled my parents to buy it for me and my father casually asked the clerk if they had any more...he proceeded to

open a storage cabinet below the display book cases and there were half a dozen more!! I was hooked....along with the Tom Swift books I was seeking out I

added all ERB books to my want list as I visited used book stores for comic books...boy, those were the days...and then the '60's and ERBdom, etc...so much

fun getting fanzines in the mail...I even published 3 issues of my own in the early '60's and had contacted Harry Habilitz to write an article on Burne Hogarth...

excerpts from it showed up in the Watson Guptil Hogarth book...but I'm rambling...just wanted to thank you for such an informative site (still lots more to

explore) and the labor of love in creating these great DJs...thanks, . . .



- just wanted you to know that I received my "John Carter of Mars" dustjacket in along with the extra Variant cover of "Savage Pellucidar"! Pleasantly

surprised to receive the extra cover but just to let you know that a while back I bought a Canaveral Press hardback of that same book! While it had an

original Krenkel jacket it also had some water damage to it! So this works out great for me! I have bought quite a few facsmile covers lately from another

seller but at MORE than twice that I paid to you! So from now on I will be looking to you FIRST before I look elsewhere! Thank you so much for your excellent

service and to let you know that if anyone else I come across Is looking for covers I will be directing them to you! Thanks Charlie! Happy New Year! :^)



- Thanks so much for the DJ's. They are perfect. I just bought a first of Tarzan Twins and the jacket looks great. My Oakdale Affair/Rider has only a partial

original DJ and I've slipped yours under and it works perfectly. My 71 b'day is coming up and I'll be purchasing more from you soon.



- The latest order just arrived—all terrific. You know, it’s kind of funny, but after a year of ordering jackets every paycheck or two, I can finally see the light

at the end of the tunnel – eight more Tom Swift jackets to go! (Though I do have a few more ERB duplicates that may be worth covering – and maybe,

eventually, I’ll start picking up a few more first editions.)

Will send the next order my next payday, as usual.



[I don't have an Erbville press edition of The Girl from Hollywood; so, I told the customer he would have to send the book to me if he wanted me to design a DJ for it. Upon

receiving the book, I mounted a variant dust jacket on it, and sent the book and new jacket back. His acknowledgement email follows.]

- Girl From Hollywood book arrived today. Looks great, just what I had in mind.



- The Savage Pellucidar DJ came in today and boy does it look terrific. What an improvement over the jacket that Canaveral produced for that title. That

jacket alone would have sold copies of that book.



- The latest order just arrived—all terrific. You know, it’s kind of funny, but after a year of ordering jackets every paycheck or two, I can finally see the light

at the end of the tunnel – eight more Tom Swift jackets to go! (Though I do have a few more ERB duplicates that may be worth covering – and maybe,

eventually, I’ll start picking up a few more first editions.) Will send the next order my next payday, as usual.





- Just received the dust jacket for one of the Tom Swift books that I ordered from you. Great printing that you've managed to do to recreate these.

Books like these will turn up from time to time in the second-hand stores, but you almost never see the dust jackets. It's great to see the original art which

adds so much. I'll definitely keep you in mind as i find more of these for the collection.



- Love the jackets! They really dress up these faded and tattered old books. Buying coverless copies is probably the only way to keep this affordable. My

pace has slowed down a bit, but I've actually been picking up a few first editions lately, when the prices haven't been astronomical. So many more still to

get.

