"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"
I’ve just added a fourth cover to last year’s post, Look Here: The first three Gor novels, with cover art by Robert Foster, but I suppose I might as well post it here, too:
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Hey, it’s a hand-coloured photomontage!
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ABOVE: Neil Young, On the Beach (Reprise, 1974), with design by Gary Burden, photography by Bob Seiderman, and lettering by Rick Griffin. Via Världshistoriens 101 bästa album.
ABOVE: Supertramp, Crisis? What Crisis? (A&M, 1975), with art direction by Fabio Nicoli, photography by Paul Wakefield, and design by Dick Ward, from an idea by Richard Davies. Via Classic Rock Review.
ABOVE: Neil Young, On the Beach (Reprise, 1974), poster, with design by Gary Burden, photography by Bob Seiderman, and lettering by Rick Griffin. Via Catch a Groove.
From my collection…
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ABOVE: John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (NY: Grove Press, 1981), with cover art by Sanjulian.
More cover scans this morning; fans of heroic fantasy will be pleased with the selection, I think:
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ABOVE: Andrew J. Offutt, Conan and the Sorcerer (Sunridge Press, 1978), with cover art by Sanjulian.
ABOVE: Robert E. Howard, revised by L. Sprague de Camp, Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos (NY: Ace, 1980), with cover art by Sanjulian.
ABOVE: Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, Conan: The Flame Knife (NY: Ace, 1981), with cover art by Sanjulian.
ABOVE: Andrew J. Offutt, Conan the Mercenary (NY: Ace, 1981), with cover art by Sanjulian.
Took me a while to find a nice, cheap copy of Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife with “Woman fleeing from…” cover art by Jeffrey Jones, but in the summer of 2013 I got lucky… and now that I’ve finally gotten around to scanning it, I can show you what it looks like:
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ABOVE: Fritz Leiber, Conjure Wife (NY: Award Books, 1974), with cover art by Jeffrey Jones.
More covers, freshly scanned and displayed in order of publication:
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Jupiter and Star Science Fiction 4 are wraparound covers, but I’m not in the mood right now to do the scanning and stitching necessary to display the back, spine, and front of each book as a single image. Sorry…
Freshly scanned from my personal collection of old vinyl, here are two classic album covers with art by Roger Huyssen:
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The above scans were made possible by our recently acquired cheapo 11 x 17 inch flatbed scanner, although it still takes two passes per album cover, plus a bit of stitching with Microsoft Image Composite Editor, and some futzing around in GIMP, to get to the final JPEGs.
It’s a thankless job, but…
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