"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"
Scanned by me from my personal copy of the book, as usual:
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ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, City (NY: Ace Books, 1973), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
To view all of the covers with art by Davis Meltzer that I’ve posted so far, start here.
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ABOVE: Keith Laumer, A Plague of Demons (NY: Paperback Library, 1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds., World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 (NY: Ace, c1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds., World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 (NY: Ace, c1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds., World’s Best Science Fiction 1971 (NY: Ace, c1971), with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
To view all of the covers with art by Davis Meltzer that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here.
More cover scans this morning, which I know will come as a big relief to those of you for whom it comes as a big relief:
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ABOVE: Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime (NY: Ace, 1971), 34900, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Andre Norton, Web of the Witch World (NY: Ace, nd), 87871, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, Time and Again (NY: Ace, nd), 81001, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Theodore Sturgeon, The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon (NY: Ace, 1972), 91060, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Margaret St. Clair, The Dancers of Noyo (NY: Ace, 1973), 13600, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
The most obvious influence on Melzer’s art in the early 1970s was Kelly Freas. I have more Freas covers to post, so stay tuned for that, if that’s that sort of thing that’s your sort of thing.
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Isn’t it interesting that the art director at Ace put the blurb on The Falling Astronauts cover directly over Meltzer’s signature. No art credit inside the book, either. But Meltzer was probably paid a lot for his work, right? Yeah, right…
More crumbling paperbacks from the collection of yours truly, this time with cover art by an illustrator I know nothing about except that he definitely produced one of the following covers, the one that is uncredited but signed, and probably produced the other one, which is uncredited and unsigned — the signature has likely been cropped out — but which stylistic and contextual evidence suggests is also by him:
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