"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!
A couple of weeks of silence, and now here I am, back in the control room of RCN’s online headquarters, poised to post a gallery of one paperback cover, scanned by me mere minutes ago from my personal copy of Thomas Pynchon’s V. Earlier today, I searched high and low online for information about the Bantam Modern Classic edition V. in an attempt to determine if anyone out there knows who produced the uncredited, unsigned cover art, with no luck, none, nothing, zilch, but whatever… I’m going to post it anyway… and then perhaps I’ll offer a copy of the scan to ThomasPynchon.com, where the Bantam Modern Classic edition of the book is NOT currently listed:
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If anyone out there knows for sure who the artist is here — by itself, the generic 60s illustration style points in any number of directions! — please feel free to post the information in the comments below.
P.S. The hot spot to the left of the figure is not glare from the glossy cover stock; rather, it’s a feature of the illustration.
It’s been a while since I last scanned and posted some covers of paperbacks in my personal collection, so let’s give that a try:
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In addition to RCN, I’m currently running three tumblr blogs and a twitter feed, and there are days when I think that, perhaps, I have taken on too much…
Stumbling around on tumblr today, I came across an uncredited image that reminded me of something I had seen before…
If anyone recognizes that photo and can tell me when and where it was published, I’d love to hear from you. And if you have a copy of the publication and could supply me with a better scan, well, that’d be just peachy.
UPDATE (22 June 2015):
Thanks to the inspired efforts of an anonymous reader (see the comments section below), we now have the precise context for Jones’s “reference photo” posted above. The source is a photo layout titled “Secrets From My Diary,” shot by J. Frederick Smith, for the December 1973 issue of VIVA (vol. 1, no. 3). And thanks to the efforts of fans on the VFILES site, we can view the photo in the context of the original NSFW article/layout:
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The scans are small, yes, even if you click to enlarge them, but the information is much appreciated. Thanks, hsc!
Neither of the following novels from the collection of yours truly includes a cover credit, and if the art was signed by the artist, the signature has been cropped out by the designer; nonetheless, it seems likely to me that the artist is Joseph Lombardero, whose Sax Rohmer covers were featured here at RCN back in May of this year:
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ABOVE: Neal Bell, Gone to be Snakes Now (NY: Popular Library, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Worlds of Poul Anderson (NY: Ace, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Worlds of Poul Anderson (NY: Ace, c.1974), with cover art by Joseph Lombardero (attrib.).
As always, if you think/know that I’ve made an attribution error, I welcome your corrections in the comments.
This is the fifth post in a row here at RCN to feature a selection of William Teason’s Agatha Christie covers, which brings the total number of Teason scans in our collection to an uneven twenty one. Enjoy!
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Dead Man’s Mirror (NY: Dell, 1966), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (NY: Dell, 1970), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective (NY: Dell, 1971), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder after Hours (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
More scans from the collection of yours truly, as usual:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Regatta Mystery (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, An Overdose of Death (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, They Came to Bagdad (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
I have enough Agatha Christie mysteries with cover art by William Teason for one more post, so if you’re a Teason fan, you might want visit RCN again tomorrow for that…
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Tuesday Club Murders (NY: Dell, 1967), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death (NY: Dell, 1971), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Boomerang Clue (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin (NY: Dell, 1979), with cover art by William Teason.
Four more scans, fresh off the flatbed:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder in Three Acts (NY: Popular Library, 1934), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, N or M? (NY: Dell, 1968), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1968), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1979), with cover art by William Teason.
Two of the above novels — The Moving Finger (NY: Dell, 1968) and N or M? — include the following credit on the back cover: “Cover Illustration: Teason.” The other two covers are uncredited, but I believe they are also by Teason. If not, please let me know.
The cover art for the following mystery novels is uncredited, and I don’t see any sign of a signature, but my understanding is that the artist here is William Teason:
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ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Big Four (NY: Dell, 1972), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, Murder on the links (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by William Teason.
ABOVE: Agatha Christie, The Tuesday Club Murders (NY: Dell, 1975), with cover art by William Teason.
If my attribution of the above covers to Teason is incorrect, please feel free to post the proper attribution in the comments section below this post. I have quite a few more Agatha Christie mysteries with covers in a similar vein that I plan to scan and post in the very near future, so if the artist here is NOT Teason, I’d prefer to make the correction sooner rather than later…
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