The following cover by Jones is from the Skywald horror magazine, Nightmare, volume 1, number 6 (December 1971):
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- ABOVE: Arthur C. Clarke, The Deep Range (New York: Signet, 1964), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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- ABOVE: Keith Laumer and Gorden R. Dickson, Planet Run (New York: Berkley, 1967), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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- ABOVE: John Brunner, More Things in Heaven (New York: Dell, 1973), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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- ABOVE: Keith Laumer, Night of Delusions (New York: Berkley, 1974), with cover by Paul Lehr.
The 1964 edition of The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke with the cover by Paul Lehr is a pretty cool find, I think. It’s a pity the artwork is obscured by the title, etc., but the book is in excellent condition, so it scanned fairly nicely, and of course, it is instructive to compare it with Lehr’s later covers, which, unlike The Deep Range, typically combine highly saturated colours with a strict adherence to traditional colour schemes.
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- ABOVE: Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait in Lilac Shirt (1914), gouache, watercolour, and pencil, 48.4 x 32.2 cm.
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- ABOVE: Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Raised Arms (1914), gouache and pencil, 48.4 x 32.1 cm.
Jones’s Scheherazade graced the cover of the Styx #2 back in 1973 (37 years ago!):
Styx was published by Winnipeg’s own Joseph Krolik, who was very active in fandom beginning in the mid-to-late 1960s, when he and a buddy, Andris Taskans, both in high school at the time, started a club called “The Science Fiction Fans & Comic Collectors of Winnipeg” and published a “clubzine” called Universe that ran for seven issues.
On 05 March 2010, Glimmer Graphics, known to readers of this blog as the publisher of an ongoing series of first-rate prints and posters by Jeffrey Jones, will release Poetry (see above image), a lush new 22 x 15 inch limited-edition giclée print by Barry Windsor-Smith. Each of the 375 prints that make up the edition will be signed and numbered and will be presented in a foil-stamped linen folder with a tipped-on colour plate. The unit price is US$135, shipped and insured, and you may pay in full or with installments. To place your order, click here.
This is NOT a paid advertisement. If the money BWS makes from the print enables him to complete work on his long-awaited Monsters graphic novel, that will be payment enough. The previews on BWS’s site are gorgeous!
BONUS LINKS:
The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives Volume 1 HC (Publication Date: 13 January 2010) — “now presented as they were intended, remastered using the original color palette!”
The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives Volume 2 HC (Publication Date: 19 May 2010) — “The two Barry Windsor-Smith archives collect all of the historic and influential Conan the Barbarian comics drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith,” including his adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s “Red Nails”!
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- ABOVE: Ted White, The Spawn of the Death Machine (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
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- ABOVE: Michael D. Resnick, The Goddess of Ganymede (New York: Paperback Library, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
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- ABOVE: A. E. Van Vogt, The Far Out Worlds of A. E. Van Vogt (New York: Ace Books, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
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- 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.
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