Book Covers

[dask]

Fried Egg, Here's Leo and Diane Dillion's take on Moorcock's classic:

 

[clovis-man]

Fried Egg, Here's Leo and Diane Dillion's take on Moorcock's classic:

When this book first came out, I copied the book club edition artwork onto a linoleum block and carved it out. It made a great template for prints that I could use all sorts of colors in.

 

[dask]

Sounds like a lot of work, clovis-man. You must be an artist by trade or a real serious amateur.

Anyway, here's the companion volume to THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR ll, another Ken Kelly masterpiece:

 

[dask]

Here's the first Isaac Asimov book I bought back in 1969. Tech savvy John Berkey does the cover.

 

[dask]

Here's the cover to a book about possibly the most controversial battle ever to take place on American soil:

 

[blacknorth]

I'll have to track that one down, dask, looks and sounds pretty cool.

 

[dask]

Glad you like it. Now it's time for gawkin' at Gaughan:

And the killer arrays of Kelly Freas:

 

[blacknorth]

The Warlock In Spite of Himself, great title and cover - another one for the cart.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Very obscure novel, cool with it too:

Superb. How could you NOT buy a novel with that cover?

 

[dask]

Kooky cover time:

And freakin' out with Frazetta:

"Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together and share your best-loved covers right now."

 

[blacknorth]

Raduga was a Soviet publishing house, based in Moscow, which translated Soviet SF and distributed it in the West. I'm not sure if they survived the fall of Communism.

 

[dask]

Looks great. I read an anthology of soviet sf earlier this year, PATH INTO THE UNKNOWN, a Dell paperback from the sixties. Just as good any other sf I've read.

 

[blacknorth]

One of my favourite occupation novels - a UK version of CM Kornbluth's Christmas Eve.

 

[blacknorth]

Looks great. I read an anthology of soviet sf earlier this year, PATH INTO THE UNKNOWN, a Dell paperback from the sixties. Just as good any other sf I've read.

Yeah, it's a good anthology, I read it quite a few years back. I might just dig it out again, now that you've reminded me.

Meantime, here's one that's very very scarce - the original Dobson hardback 1st of an obscure Poul Anderson novella, The Makeshift Rocket, concerning the little matter of a Irish rebel spacecraft propelled by stout. Apologies for the slant - couldn't get it lined up right in the scanner.

Reminds me of the Spike Milligan Q sketch - Mission Control, Sligo...

 

[dask]

Hope the Politically Correct Police don't see that!

 

[dask]

Here's the cover. Now go read Anthony G Williams's review.

 

[dask]

Here's my first ERB book:

 

[blacknorth]

I think my edition of Cosmic Engineers is different - can't confirm because it's boxed up somewhere.

Meantime, here's another interesting curio: The Cambridgeshire Disaster by Mathew Hunter.

 

[blacknorth]

Much to my shame, this is the only Frank Belknap Long in my possession:

 

[blacknorth]

Last but not least - you can't beat a good conspiracy theory, especially when it's the aristocracy: