Great Book Covers

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What book covers did you love or remember, which covers gave a sense of wonder or fear? What covers made you want to read a book? This is the thread to post them, the anti-bad book cover thread if you like. If this has been done before, then apologies.

Here's one of mine from when I was a kid... This one generated wonder and fear...


 
The old covers for Sven Hassel's novels. I was introduced to them at a time when I still read 'Commando' comics. With covers which closely resemble those of my comics , I was drawn in to reading 'proper' books.
 
paranoid marvin said:
The old covers for Sven Hassel's novels. I was introduced to them at a time when I still read 'Commando' comics. With covers which closely resemble those of my comics , I was drawn in to reading 'proper' books.
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by eck PM. How old are you?

"Rogue Bomber"

saw the cover a lot in the mags. me and my mate searched high and low but never found it.

whatever happened to Fritz and his mates?
 
I love some of the penguin covers from the 70s,but some are just awful!
And the first Asimov book I read had a Chris Foss cover and I just loved it.(I later found an old battered hardback copy of Caves of Steel and framed the cover) I love his stuff and have this cover of Slan as my phone wallpaper
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Stephen Donaldson original UK covers not mine alas... they must have gone walkabout:


It was as much the background painting of the land as the main image.
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One of my all time favorites is Paul Alexander's cover to Colin Kapp's PATTERNS OF CHAOS, Ace Books, May 1978.
 
One of the few books I have bought based on the cover alone. As it turned out, it was one of the best though out modern utopia I have ever encountered:

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The hardback artwork from A.A. Attanasio's RADIX has always fascinated me.
 

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WizardofOwls,

Love the Greenmantle cover, reminds me of the sequoia forest in California.
 
... and this is truly frightening... fabulous book too.



 
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TheEndIsNigh said:
by eck PM. How old are you?

"Rogue Bomber"

saw the cover a lot in the mags. me and my mate searched high and low but never found it.

whatever happened to Fritz and his mates?
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LOL. Not THAT old , just used to browse through my dad's old books as a kid.
 
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