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Again, thank you for you patience in the midst of several delays you’ve experienced in shipping your boxed set of Tarzan of the Apes: The Artist Edition. I can assure you that we’ve used the delay to make this edition even better than we imagined.
We know you are eager to have what you ordered, and the good news is that we just received from our bindery a project completion date of Friday, June 18 which would allow us to start shipping sets out the following week.
Hopefully that schedule will remain intact, but I will send out a final update in two weeks to confirm shipping plans.
Here are some of the features of the set I think you’ll appreciate - some of which have been added after our initial offering.
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The 32 lb box of Limitation pages traveled over 7000 miles in order to collect the five signatures for this Artist Edition. Signers are Pulitzer Prize winning book critic for the Washington Post Michael Dirda (Preface) and artists Thomas Yeates(Artist Preface), Neal Adams, Daren Bader and John Patrick.
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The book will be wrapped in two dust jackets both newly created for this edition - the outer jacket shown above features a new classic painting by Sanjulian (see above) and the inner dust jacket is a recreation of the original 1914 Arting dust jacket by Phil Normand. The color illustrated endpapers are from a new painting by Daren Bader. (below)
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The 28 color tipped in illustrations include a four-panel fold-out tribute to some of the great illustrators in Tarzan comic art history - Foster, Hogarth, Kubert and Adams. The majority of the other artwork, including the 100+ b&w illustrations depict scenes from Tarzan of the Apes - many of which are previously unpublished.
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The book & custom case will be bound in a square yard of Eurobond leather, with titling and a jungle border design by Zavier Cabarga stamped in gold foil and highlighting Clinton Pettee's classic Tarzan painting - all designed to match A Princess of Mars and the next title in the ERB-LEC - At the Earth's Core. (below)
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The set includes over 20 replica documents, ephemera and artifacts housed in the case and portfolio that have rarely been seen even by the most avid collector of Tarzan of the Apes material. One unannounced item that has been added to the set during the delays is a reproduction of a 1918 glass "magic lantern movie slide" used to advertise the first ever Tarzan movie which starred Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey. (below)
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