Edgar Rice Burroughs:
An Illustrated Chrono-Log
Early Years to 1911

For More Illustrations from 1911 go to:

1911 Illustrated Bib
Gallery 1911A (Tarzan of the Apes)
Gallery 1911B (Princess of Mars)
Gallery 1911C (Tarzan of the Apes)

 Compiled by Bill Hillman

Our Illustrated ERB Pulp Magazine Bibliography is displayed at:
ERBzin-e 220


Our Hypertexted Checklist of ERB Short Works is displayed at:
 ERBzin-e 219

The Bold dates indicate the year in which ERB created the stories.
Book dedications are indicated in quotation marks.
The information following the titles indicate: the working title (WT),
the first published title, usually in magazines (MT).
Where WT or MT are not given, the title is the same.
Following this is a list of magazine and book publishers who have put out
editions of the work.
Publish dates for the first edition magazines and books are in brackets.

The Early Years: Poetry - HORSES AND DOGS (1887) - 89 S.S.S.! (1887) - CHICAGO (1887) - WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING? AN EVENING LULLABY FOR THE CHILDREN (1903) - BLACK MAN'S BURDEN - POVERTY (1908) - THE MARTYRS (1909) - MUSCA DOMESTICA 1909) - O, YES; IT’S GETTING THICK (1911) -  NAY, IT HATH NOT GONE (1914) - THE CLIMATE AND THE VIEW  (1914) - THE CONTRIBS OF YESTERYEAR (1915) - Numerous Poems written for ERB's Breakfast Club (1925) - THE $ STEAMSHIP COW (1936) - GENGHIS KHAN (10 pages) - IT’S ANTS! - HOOKS FOR MEN! - LOOK AT THIS PICTURE, THEN ON THAT - (Many others)
                                        See e-text in ERB Motes & Quotes:  http://www.oocities.org/Hollywood/Boulevard/6643/erbmote3.html

1900 "Snake River Cotton-Tail Tales" and  "Unnamed" -
    Personally illustrated One-shots for family with rhymed stories and family in-jokes- See e-text:
 http://www.oocities.org/Hollywood/Boulevard/6643/erbmote3.html

1901 "Grandma Burroughs' Cook Book" -
                Hand-lettered and illustrated recipe book of family recipes - Unpublished 

1903 circa Minidoka 937th Earl of One Mile Series M -
                Soon to be published by Dark Horse


1904-1907 The Violet Veil: A Treely True Story - Unpublished 

1911
A Princess of Mars --
"To My Son Jack" WT=Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess Under the Moons of Mars -- MT=Under the Moons of Mars - Carter of the Red Planet

All-Story Magazine 6(1912) - Modern Mechanics and Invention 4(1929) - A.C. McClurg (1917) - Grosset & Dunlap - E.R. Burroughs, Inc. - Ballantine - Dover (with Fighting Man of Mars - Doubleday (Science Fiction Book Club)

Frank SchoonoverFrank E. Schoonover - McClurg and G&D


The Outlaw of Torn -- "To My Friend Joseph E. Bray"-- same
  • New Story Magazine 5(1914) - A.C. McClurg (1927) - Grosset & Dunlap - Pinnacle - Ace

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  • J. Allen St. John

  • Tarzan of the Apes    "To Emma Hulbert Burroughs"
    All-Story Magazine 1(1912) Best Stories Magazine 8(1927) - A.C. McClurg (1914) - AL Burt Company -  Grosset & Dunlap - Armed Forces Paperback -  Ballantine - Whitman - Random House - Methuen - Dover Thrift - Pan - Watson-Guptill

    Clinton Pettee Pulp Cover

    Fred J. Arting McClurg
     


    References

    Day, Bradford M. Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1962, PB, 45pp,
            Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications, Ill: Gil Kane cover 


    Fenton, Robert W. The Big Swingers - A Biography. Englewood Cliffs,
            N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. 
    Heins, Henry H. A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

            Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 418pp, 1964. 
    Huckenpohler, J. G. The ERB Collector's Pocket Checklist, Washington, D.C.:

            Huckenpohler, 1997.
    Lupoff, Richard A. ERB: Master of Adventure. NY: Ace. 1965. 
    Porges, Irwin. Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan.

            Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 820pp, 1975. 
    Roy, John Flint. A Guide to Barsoom. NY: Ballantine. 1976. 
    Zeuschner, Robert B. Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Exhaustive Scholar’s

        and Collector’s Descriptive Bibliography of American Periodical,
        Hardcover, Paperback and Reprint Editions - with a foreward by
            Philip Jose Farmer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 287pp, 1996
    Dial 1-800-253-2187 to order a copy from McFarland for $46.50

    Miscellaneous Fanzines: ERB-ania, ERB-dom, etc.
    Hillman Library, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

     
    Thanks to Bob Zeuschner [author: ERB...BIBLIOGRAPHY (see Reference)] for contributing much of the bibliographic material and many of the scans/images found on these pages
    Dial 1-800-253-2187 to order a copy from McFarland for $46.50


    EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
    ILLUSTRATED CHRONO-LOGS & BIBS
    A comparative study of the evolution of ERB book covers
    Compiled by Bill Hillman
    "A" "B" "C" etc. are doorways to Companion Cover Galleries

    Contents
    "No Frills" BIB
    Hillman Chrono Bib
    Memorabilia/Links
    St. John Gallery
    "A""B""C""D"
    1911
    "A""B""C"
    1912
    "A"
    1913
    "A""B"
    1914"A""B"
    1915"A"
    1916
    1917    "A"   "B"
    1918
    1919
    1920
    1921
    1922"A"
    1923
    1924
    1925
    1926
    1927"A"
    1928"A"
    1929
    1930
    1931"A"
    1932
    1933
    1934
    1935
    1936
    1937"A"
    1938
    1939
    1940"A"
    1941
    1942
    1943
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    1945
    1946
    1947
    1948
    1949
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