From my personal collection of 20th Century SF:
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Look Here: ELLISON WONDERLAND with cover art by Bob Pepper
Tag: Harlan Ellison
Look Here: Three paperback covers plus with art by Don Ivan Punchatz
“Don Ivan Punchatz — Don Ivan’s ability to touch men with acrylic and melt them into beasts, or touch beasts with oil and ink, and voila, they are senators or brokers is endlessly stunning. Metaphor, after all, is the universal language and Don Ivan Punchatz could teach at Berlitz.”
— Ray Bradbury
BONUS IMAGES:
The covers displayed above were scanned by me from books in my own collection; the covers displayed below were not:
Look Here: DEATHBIRD STORIES, with cover art and design by Leo and Diane Dillon
It’s not often that I see paperbacks by Harlan Ellison on the shelves in thrift stores these days — or used-book stores, period — but a couple of months ago, I came across what looks to me to be an unread copy of Deathbird Stories at Value Village — I took it off the shelf just before a local bookseller showed up, looking for underpriced books to stock his shelves, and when I showed him what I had found (I’ve purchased books from his store many times; his prices are reasonable), he told me that I was lucky that I had gotten there before him — and because the book also had the classic cover with both art and design by Leo and Diane Dillon, I bought it. Here’s a scan of the front and back covers along with a rough panorama of the wraparound:
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