"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mad King (New York: Ace, n.d.), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pellucidar (New York: Ace, 1972), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair (New York: Ace, n.d.), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land of Hidden Men (New York: Ace, 1978), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth’s Core (New York: Ace, n.d.), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Carson of Venus (New York: Ace, n.d.), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
Seems the designers at Ace couldn’t decide whether Ace’s 1970s reprint series of Edgar Rice Burroughs novels looked better with the art wrapped around to decorate the spine (as pictured above) or with coloured type on a white background (not pictured). No doubt, there was a lot of annoying input from marketing about which design would be more attractive on the store shelves and ultimately produce better sales…
The more elaborate Carson of Venus design is the odd man out here, I know, but since it is the last Edgar Rice Burroughs paperback with cover art by Frazetta that I have on hand, I thought I might as well throw it in as a bonus!
Keywords:The Mad King, Pellucidar, The Oakdale Affair, The Land of Hidden Men, At the Earth’s Core, Carson of Venus.