Look Here: ROLLERBALL MURDER with cover art by Bob Peak

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**ABOVE:** William Harrison, *Rollerball Murder* (London: Futura, 1978), with cover art by Bob Peak.

The artwork for the above cover, which I just scanned from the battered copy in my personal collection, is uncredited and unsigned, but the style is unmistakable — even if one didn’t already know that the image had been recycled from the Rollerball movie poster.

Finally, apropos of nothing, here’s a bit of discontinuity that I noticed: although the cover of William Harrison’s book sports the title “Rollerball Murder” (two words), the title page says it’s “Rollerball [one word]: 13 Selected Stories by William Harrison,” while the actual title of the short story upon which the movie Rollerball was based is given in two places — the contents page and the story’s title page — as “Roller Ball Murder” (three words). A mistake, or a case of the publishers wanting to have their cake and eat it? You decide.

BONUS IMAGE:

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Look Here: Two lovely mystery covers with art by McGinnis

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**ABOVE:** Erle Stanley Gardner, *The Case of the Golddigger’s Purse* (Montreal: Pocket Books, 1963), with cover art by Robert McGinnis.

**ABOVE:** Erle Stanley Gardner, *The Case of the the Bigamous Spouse* (Montreal: Pocket Books, 1964), with cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Wish the books were in better condition, and cleaner, but cheapskates can’t be choosers. “Buy low, pile high” is my motto. Okay, not really; I just made that up. Clever turn of phrase, though. And true, all too true, too. Just ask my wife.

Album Covers · Illustration Art · Look Here · Sanjulian

Look Here: Four Conan covers with art by Sanjulian

16 March 201410 August 2016 RC2 Comments

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.

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Look Here: One lovely cover with kaleidoscopic art by Wilson McLean

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I collect ’em (if they’re cheap enough), I scan ’em (when I can force myself to do the work), I process ’em (though I have no idea what I’m doing), and I post ’em (with a modicum of commentary, when the mood strikes; with blather like this, when I can’t think of anything interesting to say, which these days is nine times out of ten):

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**ABOVE:** Douglas R. Mason, *Dilation Effect* (NY: Ballantine, 1971), with cover art by Wilson McLean.

Scottish artist Wilson McLean was inducted by the Society of Illustrators into its Hall of Fame in 2010.

BONUS COVER SCANS:

**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *The Wind from the Sun* (Scarborough: Signet, 1973), with uncredited, unsigned cover art.

**ABOVE:** D.G. Compton, *Synthajoy* (NY: Berkley, 1979), with cover art by Richard Powers.

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Look Here: Three PBK covers with airbrush art by Grossman, by Pound, and by Pritchett

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More scans? Yes, of course! Why not?! More scans…

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**ABOVE:** Donald E. Westlake, *Jimmy the Kid* (NY: Ballantine, 1976), with cover art by Robert Grossman.

**ABOVE:** Tim Lukeman, *Rajan* (NY: Doubleday, 1982), with cover art by John Pound.

**ABOVE:** Gordon R. Dickson, *The Space Swimmers* (NY: Ace, 1979), with cover art by Tom Pritchett.

You like? I like.

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Look Here: The cover of Edmund Cooper’s SEED OF LIGHT, with art by Jim Burns

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I scanned the front cover of Seed of Light from my personal copy; the JPEG of the artist’s airbrushed artwork sans text is from Paul Hartzog’s Flickr photostream.

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**ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *Seed of Light* (Kent: Coronet Books, 1977), with cover art by Jim Burns.

Not sure which of the two images above displays the correct colour, but at this moment, I think I prefer the one with the overall greenish cast and softer focus, i.e. the printed cover.

Finally, yes, the cover of my copy of Seed of Light has a wraparound image. But the fact is, earlier today, when I scanned the front, I simply was not in the mood to scan the spine and the back and piece it all together.

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Connections: Giulio Aristide Sartorio and Milton Glaser

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I posted JPEGs of Milton Glaser’s Angel Alley cover, poster, and artwork, back on 29 January 2013, and now, more than a year later, I have noticed a familiar figure in the foreground of Giulio Aristide Sartorio’s Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves (1895-1899):

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**ABOVE:** Giulio Aristide Sartorio, *Diana of Ephesus and the Slaves* (1895-1899), oil on canvas, 421 x 304 cm. Collection of Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy. Via TRANSISTORADIO.

**ABOVE:** Milton Glaser, original art for the cover of the LP *Angel Alley* (1978) by Linda Cohen.

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Look Here: One lovely cover with surrealistic art by Gervasio Gallardo

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Yes, once again, a book cover scanned from the library of yours truly, and hey — bonus! — this one is in nice condition:

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**ABOVE:** Lin Carter, ed., *Imaginary Worlds* (NY: Ballantine Books, 1973), with cover art by Gervasio Gallardo.

BONUS IMAGE:

From Salvador Dali on abstract art…:

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Look Here: CONJURE WIFE, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

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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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