Look Here: Another three Zebra/Kensington REH paperbacks with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

7 December 20128 May 2025 RCLeave a comment

One of the highest of the many high points of Jeffrey Jones’s career as a cover illustrator was the magnificent series of large-scale oil paintings the artist produced for the Zebra Books reprints of the works of Robert E. Howard. I’ve posted eleven of Jones’s wraparound covers so far, and today I’m back with three new ones — A Gent from Bear Creek, Pigeons from Hell, and The Undying Wizard — which I recently acquired:

If Jones produced covers for more than fourteen Zebra/Kensington collections of the works of Robert E. Howard, I would be interested to hear the news, because as far as I am aware, fourteen titles is the complete set.

The other eleven Zebra/Kensington REH paperbacks with cover art by Jones that I’ve scanned and posted here at RCN can be viewed via the following links:

Look Here: Three more Zebra/Kensington REH paperbacks, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones – The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan, The Lost Valley of Iskander, The Iron Man.

Look Here: Another couple of R.E.H. covers, with wraparound art by Jones – Tigers of the Sea, The Second Book of Robert E. Howard.

Louise Simonson on Frank Frazetta, Jeffrey Jones, and photo reference… – The Vultures of Whapeton.

Look Here: Three more R.E.H. covers, with wrap-around art by Jones – Worms of the Earth, Sword of the Gael, The Book of Robert E. Howard.

Look Here: Two Zebra/Kensington REH covers, with art by Jeffrey Jones – The Sowers of the Thunder, Legion from the Shadows.

BONUS SCANS:

As luck would have it, I have two excellent copies of The Vultures of Whapeton in my collection of mouldering pulp fiction. I scanned one of the copies back on 12 February 2012 and posted the result here, and I like the scan well enough, but since I’m in a scanning mood at the moment, I think I’d like to try again. So here, just for fun, is a scan of my other copy:

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Look Here: Five LIGHT AND FANTASTIC paperbacks with cover art by Hilda Terry

4 December 201211 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Light and Fantastic by Winifred Wolfe, with cover art by Hilda Terry (author of the underrated comic strip, Teena — see here, here, and here), is the second in-card novel that I’ve posted here at RCN. The first was Ask Any Girl by the same author, with cover art by the same artist. In that case, I posted four different covers; this time, I have five:

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From my previous post, here’s what an “in-card” novel looks like with the various flaps folded out:

I wonder how many people ever actually tried to seal one of these up and send it…

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Look Here: Four SF novels by Barry N. Malzberg with cover art by Charles Moll

2 December 201213 June 2017 RCLeave a comment

From the library of yours truly:

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**ABOVE:** Barry N. Malzberg, *Herovit’s World* (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), with cover art by Charles Moll.

**ABOVE:** Barry N. Malzberg, *Beyond Apollo* (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), with cover art by Charles Moll.

**ABOVE:** Barry N. Malzberg, *On a Planet Alien* (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), with cover art by Charles Moll.

**ABOVE:** Barry N. Malzberg, *The Sodom and Gomorrah Business* (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), with cover art by Charles Moll.

I like to think that when Barry N. Malzberg first saw Charles Moll’s terrific cover art for the Pocket Books editions of his novels, he briefly felt hopeful about the future of his career in science fiction.

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Look Here: THE EAGLE AND THE WIND, with frothy cover art by the great unknown

30 November 201211 August 2016 RC7 Comments

Yep, you guessed it… another book from my paperback collection, freshly scanned and processed:

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The artwork on the front and back cover of the Popular Library Eagle Books edition of The Eagle and the Wind (1954) by Herbert E. Stover is uncredited, no signature is visible in the paintings themselves, and I can find no information about the cover online. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t be surprised if the artist turned out to be Rafael De Soto. But I’m no expert. I mainly go by what I see.

BONUS IMAGE (12 May 2013):

As has been pointed out in the comments, Rafael De Soto’s original artwork for The Eagle and the Wind is currently available for purchase via All-Star Auctions. Here’s a link to the auction page. And here’s what the painting looks like framed:

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From my comments below:

It’s cool to see an image of the actual painting — comparing the printed version with the framed version, I would say there is a good chance that the board was cut down at the top at some point after the image was published to enhance the composition sans text.

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Look Here: “An Average Day on Mission Street” by Spain Rodriguez

29 November 201211 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From Arcade #2 (Summer 1975), here’s “An Average Day on Mission Street” by the great Spain Rodriguez, who died yesterday at the age of 72:

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Look Here: Three SF covers with art by Richard Powers

25 November 201210 June 2022 RCLeave a comment

More covers scanned and processed by me from books in my personal collection:

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I’ve posted a lot of covers with art by Richard Powers over the past few years. Take a look: sixteen posts and counting.

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Look Here: SEARCH THE SKY, with cover art by Richard Powers

21 November 201210 June 2022 RCLeave a comment

Freshly scanned, by me, from my personal collection:

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Look Here: Four Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams

20 November 201211 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Although I have never read a single novel by Agatha Christie, I have over forty old paperbacks with her name on them in my personal collection. Most of them have cover art by Tom Adams but a handful feature cover art by William Teason. My plan is, eventually, to scan them all for display here. As regular visitors here might recall, I posted a scan of an Agatha Christie with cover art by Tom Adams on Halloween, as well as a couple of Raymond Chandlers with art by Tom Adams back in August. And now here are four more:

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Tom Adams + mystery novels = illustration gold!

Why Tom Adams’ cover art has not secured him a spot in the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame is a greater mystery than anything ever dreamt of in the world of fiction…

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Look Here: Three more Fritz Leiber novels with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

16 November 20123 January 2025 RC3 Comments

Just finished scanning these, so the next step is to post them, like so:

The “Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ Catherine Jones” category here at RCN — which currently clocks in at 122 posts, with more on the way — is a treasure trove of covers, comics, spot illustrations, sketches, and more. Check it out.

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Look Here: Two classic Fritz Leiber novels with classic cover art by Jeffrey Jones

13 November 20125 January 2025 RC2 Comments

In my paperback collection, I have at the moment at least half a dozen of the novels in Fritz Leiber’s “Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser” series with cover art by Jeffrey Jones; here are two of them, freshly scanned and processed for your viewing enjoyment:

More later!