Robert E. Howard — KULL: EXILE OF ATLANTIS Update
The Limited Edition of Robert E. Howard’s Kull: Exile of Atlantis is less than a week from heading to the printer. Our Director of Production, Yanni Kuznia, has been through the book and index multiple times, making corrections to the files we were sent. We’ve set up a special art/portfolio section for Justin Sweet’s full-color interior illustrations, as well as replacing a few of the black-and-white illustrations with new, improved versions by Justin. That’s not all. Justin has agreed to provide an extra section of rough sketches that will appear only in the Deluxe Leatherbound edition of Kull.
A few things to we should tell you. Our edition, the text, interior illustrations, and endsheets will be printed on a heavier paper than the Wandering Star editions, though we’ve decided on a color art portfolio rather than placing the color interior illustrations throughout the book. Also, as our printer is not able to do top edge gilding on the book, that’s one feature we’ll have to leave behind. We’ll be continuing the two-color foil stamping on the book itself, which will be bound in a beige Pearl Linen that stamps well, and will continue the Wandering Star tradition of having a full-color illustration adorn the slipcase.
We think, given the fact that we’ll be doing far fewer copies than Wandering Star did of their limited editions, and at a $75 lower price point, the SubPress editions of Robert E. Howard’s works will sit proudly on the shelves next to Wandering Star’s glorious volumes.