Canaveral Press

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Canaveral Press, a division of the Biblo & Tannen mail order company, was a New York-based publisher of science fiction and related material, active from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. It was owned by Jack Biblo and Jack Tannen.

Most Canaveral Press titles were reprints of Edgar Rice Burroughs material on which the copyright had lapsed, but Canaveral was on good terms with the Burroughs heirs, and several Canaveral Burroughs titles are legitimate first editions of material not previously published in book form and in some cases not previously published. Canaveral is noted for bringing some of the great illustrators of the 1960’s to the Burroughs material—notably Roy G. Krenkel, Reed Crandall and Frank Frazetta.

Canaveral also published original material by E. E. Doc Smith, L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, and by Richard A. Lupoff, who edited much of the Burroughs material.

Canaveral stopped adding titles to its catalog in the late 1960s, though a number of its existing titles were reprinted in the 1970s. The firm closed down in the late 1970s.

Works published by Canaveral Press

    * A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962, reprinted 1974)
    * The Moon Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962, reprinted 1975)
    * The Monster Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962)
    * The Land That Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962)
    * Tanar of Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962)
    * At the Earth’s Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962)
    * Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Mahlon Blaine, 1962)
    * Pirates of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by J. Allen St. John, 1962)
    * The Cave Girl, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Roy G. Krenkel, 1962)
    * Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Frank Frazetta, 1962, reprinted 1974)
    * The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Larry Ivy, 1962)
    * Back to the Stone Age, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (dust-jacket by Sam Sigaloff and 7 plates by John Coleman Burroughs, 1963)
    * Escape on Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (dust-jacket by Sam Sigaloff and five internal illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, 1963, reprinted 1975)
    * The Mucker, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by J. Allen St. John, 1963)
    * Carson of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by J. Allen St. John, 1963)
    * Lost on Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by J. Allen St. John, 1963)
    * Land of Terror, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Roy G. Krenkel, 1963)
    * Savage Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by J. Allen St. John, 1963)
    * Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Roy G. Krenkel, 1963, combines The Tarzan Twins and Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bel-Ja the Golden Lion)
    * John Carter of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Reed Crandall, 1964)
    * Tales of Three Planets, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Roy G. Krenkel, 1964)
    * Tarzan and the Madman, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Reed Crandall, 1964)
    * Tarzan and the Castaways, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illus by Frank Frazetta, 1964 reprinted 1975)
    * Subspace Explorers, by Edward E. Smith (illus by Roy G. Krenkel, 1965)
    * Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure, by Richard A. Lupoff (1965)
    * Spirits, Stars, and Spells: the Profits and Perils of Magic, by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp (1966)