Posts Tagged “Paul Lehr”
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ABOVE: Charles L. Harness, The Ring of Ritornel (New York: Berkley, 1968), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Edmund Cooper, Kronk (New York: Berkely, 1971), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Dav Garnett, The Starseekers (New York: The Starseekers, 1971), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: D. F. Jones, The Floating Zombie (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover by Paul Lehr.
Click here to view all of the Paul Lehr paperback covers I’ve posted so far.
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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: Ian Wallace, Croyd (New York: Berkley, 1968), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 - 1998).
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ABOVE: A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull, Planets for Sale (New York: Tempo Books, 1970), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 - 1998).
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ABOVE: David Gerrold, Yesterday's Children (New York: Dell, 1972), with cover by Paul Lehr (1930 - 1998).
That makes 16 covers by Paul Lehr displayed here, with more to come…
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Whenever I see SF paperback covers by Paul Lehr like the nine I posted yesterday, and the many others he created in a similar vein, I immediately think of Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead” paintings and, to a lesser extent, ”The Sacred Wood”:
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ABOVE: Arnold Böcklin, The Isle of the Dead (1880).
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ABOVE: Arnold Böcklin, The Isle of the Dead (1883).
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ABOVE: Arnold Böcklin, The Isle of the Dead (1886).
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ABOVE: Arnold Böcklin, The Sacred Wood (1882).
I was tempted to file the comparison between Böcklin and Lehr under “Call and Response,” but I guess I am just not quite convinced myself that there’s any direct influence from one to the other — although the impossibly jagged cliffs in Lehr’s cover for Zelazny’s Isle of the Dead (strange coincidence!) are tantalizingly similar, visually, to the trees in Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead” variations. Or maybe I’m just seeing things!
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From the bookshelves of yours truly, here are nine paperback covers (ten, actually) by Paul Lehr, along with one Lehr-ish cover by another hand:
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ABOVE: Jack Vance, The Anome (Dell, 1973), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Robert Silverberg, Conquerors from the Darkness (Dell, 1968), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Theodore Sturgeon, The Cosmic Rape (Dell, 1968), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Vernor Vinge, Grimm's World (Berkley, 1969), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (Bantam, 1970), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky (Fawcett, 1971), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Fawcett, 1971), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World (Berkley, 1974), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead (Ace, 1985), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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ABOVE: Poul Anderson, The Enemy Stars (Berkley, 1965), with cover by Jerome Podwil.
BONUS IMAGE: [added 06 October 2009]
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ABOVE: John Boyd, Andromeda Gun (Berkley, 1974), with cover by Paul Lehr.
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