"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"
ABOVE: Karl Edward Wagner, Dark Crusade (NY: Warner Books, 1983), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Michael Moorcock, The Silver Warriors (NY: Dell, 1973), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Richard A. Lupoff, Into the Aether (NY: Dell, 1974), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Moon Men (NY: Ace, 1978), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Karl Edward Wagner, Bloodstone (NY: Warner Books, 1983), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
ABOVE: Robert E. Howard, Conan the Warrior (NY: Ace, n.d.), with cover art by Frank Frazetta.
Keywords:Conan the Warrior by Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp; Into the Aether by Richard A. Lupoff; Bloodstone by Karl Edward Wagner; The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner; Kane; The Silver Warriors by Michael Moorcock.
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.
Keywords:Conan: The Flame Knife by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp; Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos by Robert E. Howard, revised by L. Sprague de Camp; Conan the Mercenary by Andrew J. Offutt, Conan and the Sorcerer by Andrew J. Offutt; Sanjulian.
More covers today with strong art by an underrated illustrator whose work I’ve featured before here at RCN:
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To view all of the covers with art by Bob Pepper that I’ve scanned and posted so far, click here and scroll down the page.
Keywords:Deryni Checkmate by Katherine Kurtz, Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany, Flesh by Philip Jose Farmer, The Continent Maker and Other Tales of the Viagens edited by L. Sprague de Camp.
ABOVE: Edward E. Smith, The Skylark of Space (New York: Pyramid, 1958), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Clifford Simak, The Worlds of Clifford Simak (New York: Avon, n.d.), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Murray Leinster, Creatures of the Abyss (New York: Berkley, 1961), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Damon Knight, Beyond the Barrier (New York: Macfadden Books, 1965), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: William F. Nolan, Impact-20 (New York: Paperback Library, 1966), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Keith Laumer, Galactic Odyssey (New York: Berkley, 1967), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: L. Sprague de Camp, The Glory That Was (New York: Paperback Library, 1971), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, Out of Their Minds (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Robert Hoskins, ed., The Future Now (New York: Fawcett, 1977), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Robert Hoskins, ed., The Future Now (New York: Fawcett, 1977), with cover art by Richard Powers. This is the back cover, obviously, but note that the art doesn’t appear on the spine, which is a solid colour.
To view all of the paperbacks with cover art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Keywords:The Skylark of Space, The Worlds of Clifford Simak, Creatures of the Abyss, Beyond the Barrier, Impact-20, Galactic Odyssey, The Glory that Was, Out of Their Minds, The Future Now.
The helmeted, injured soldier in the lower left quadrant of Frank Frazetta’s Buccaneer/Destroyer painting and the helmeted, injured soldier/sailor in the lower left quadrant of Jeffrey Jones’s painting for Talbot Mundy’s The Purple Pirate are not exact copies of each other, as you can plainly see above, and yet, they do seem to share a certain family resemblance. So much so, that one might venture to guess that one of the painters has been “inspired by” the other in this detail… however, it’s not at all clear to me who was inspired by whom. Near as I can tell, the Jones cover was published first, in 1970; the Frazetta, second, in 1971. So make of that what you will…
Keywords:The Buccaneer, The Purple Pirate Talbot Mundy, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter.
The original reproduction on many of the following covers by Jeffrey Jones, all from the library of yours truly, was very poor, so my scans are sometimes not the best here. One exception is the last cover, Twilight of the Serpent, which actually showcases Jones’s artwork in more detail and with more lively colour than does the rather dour reproduction on the back cover of publisher Underwood-Miller’s lavish hardcover, The Art of Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Robert Silverberg, ed., Earthmen & Strangers (New York: Dell, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: A. E. Van Vogt, The Book of Ptath (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor (New York: Ace, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, The Incomplete Enchanter (New York: Pyramid, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Peter Saxon, The Curse of Rathlaw (New York: Prestige Books, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Richard Meade, The Sword of Morning Star (New York: Signet, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Frank Brunner, Bedlam Planet (New York: Ace, n.d.), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Peter Valentine Timlett, Twilight of the Serpent (New York: Bantam Books, 1977), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
My favourites this time around are the covers for The Curse of Rathlaw (1968), an early effort in which Jones’s attractive design for the vignette is nicely reinforced by the typography, and Twilight of the Serpent (1977), a later cover which displays Jones’s hard-won skills as a draftsman (or draughtsman, if you prefer), mastery of lost-and-found edges in oil painting, and increasing willingness in the 1970s and early 1980s to produce images that went against the grain of traditional heroic fantasy.
Keywords:Earthmen and Strangers, Kothar of the Magic Sword, The Book of Ptath, The Jewels of Aptor, Seetee Shock, The Incomplete Enchanter, The Curse of Rathlaw, The Sword of Morning Star, Bedlam Planet, Twilight of the Serpent.
ABOVE: Ted White, The Spawn of the Death Machine (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: Michael D. Resnick, The Goddess of Ganymede (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: A. E. Van Vogt, The Far Out Worlds of A. E. Van Vogt (New York: Ace Books, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: L. Sprague de Camp, The Clocks of Iraz (New York: Pyramid Books, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
Even though I don’t much care for any of the above covers, I have decided to include them here anyway for what they reveal about Jones’s slow but steady development as an artist.
Keywords:The Spawn of the Death Machine, The Goddess of Ganymede, The Far Out Worlds of A. E. Van Vogt, The Clocks of Iraz.
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