Further selections from a growing collection of brittle books that I’ve purchased just so I could scan the covers, post them here, lean back in my chair, and admire my own busywork:
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- ABOVE: Brian W. Aldiss, ed., All about Venus (Dell, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
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- ABOVE: Margaret St. Clair, The Shadow People (Dell, 1969), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
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- ABOVE: David St. John, Diabolus (Fawcett, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
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- ABOVE: John Dalmas, The Yngling (Pyramid Books, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
The main thing to notice here is the improvement in Jones’s compositions, draftsmanship, and paint handling, from 1968 to 1971. There’s an awful lot of fudging going on in those covers from 1968 and 1969! There’s noticeably less fudging in the 1971 covers, however, which are not only very good in themselves but point the way to Jones’s terrific mid-1970s work for Zebra/Kensington and others.
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