Covers You Love

[noose]

She's plague ridden, but she's managed to keep her bra on, good girl that she is

[andydecker]

Simpler times

What yesterday was the plague is todays cover model of Tatoo Times

[andydecker]

Got these two from an german ebay-dealer who sometimes has great british books for small prices.

Tandem 1965, 158 pages

I just couldn´t resist, even if the subject matter isn´t high on my interest list.

Tandem 1975, 220 pages

Frankly I thought this was non-fiction, but it is a novel. Both books are in a top condition, which is also nice.

[noose]

Mar 1, 2011 12:56:45 GMT andydecker said:

Got these two from an german ebay-dealer who sometimes has great british books for small prices.

Tandem 1965, 158 pages

I just couldn´t resist, even if the subject matter isn´t high on my interest list.

Tandem 1975, 220 pages

Frankly I thought this was non-fiction, but it is a novel. Both books are in a top condition, which is also nice.

Oh fuck me, they are both beautiful.

[Craig Herbertson]

If I could pick my death I think I'd be prepared to go with that Amazon as my last vision...

[doomovertheworld]

a couple of covers i remember enthralling me when i was younger and first started looking in second hand book shops for horror & science fiction:





i also use to love the wrap around art of the clark ashton smith 70s panther books and the covers of brian lumley books

[dem]

Rescued this lovely trio during dawn raid on Slater Street market yesterday. Bit miffed that I once charity-shopped a 1st edition of The Rape Of Venice on grounds that I'd never seen it included among the 'black magic' titles.

Dennis Wheatley - The Rape Of Venice (Arrow, 1965: originally Hutchinson, 1959)

Blurb:
Passion Intrigue Violence Black Magic.
All the ingredients are here for another action-packed, thrill-laden story of adventure and romance featuring Roger Brook, Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent, one of the most famous characters created by "The Prince of thriller writers."

Dennis Wheatley - The Prisoner In The Mask (Arrow, 1964: originally Hutchinson, 1957)

Sheldon

Blurb:
Duke de Richleau conspires to put a King on the Throne.
This is the story of the youth of Dennis Wheatley's famous character, Duke de Richleau. He then bore his father's second title, Count de Quesnoy. The story is set against the glamorous background of Paris in the nineties, when the ladies of the great world had little to think about except their love affairs — and the Count was no mean gallant. The betrayal of the conspiracy brought death to some and left the Count in desperate straits. But instead of des­pairing he declared a vendetta against the Republican Government. How he fought it while being hunted on a charge of murder makes most exciting reading.

Dennis Wheatley - The Scarlet Imposter (Arrow, 1960: originally Hutchinson, 1940)

Blurb:
When Gregory Sallust landed in wartime Germany he had as much chance of coming out alive as a mouse in a cage of cats. His job was to contact an anti-Nazi organization ready to overthrow Hitler and sue for peace.

Masquerading first as a German General, then as an S.S. Gruppenfuhrer, he stayed the course to the very end. A hundred times he risked death and the vilest tortures.

Each minute he pushed forward with incredible daring, and fought desperately to elude the enemy closing round him.
Typical Wheatley, a thriller of tremendous power supercharged with violent action and terrific suspense.

[Mike Brough]

Mar 1, 2011 13:46:47 GMT noose said:

Mar 1, 2011 12:56:45 GMT andydecker said:

I just couldn´t resist, even if the subject matter isn´t high on my interest list.

Tandem 1975, 220 pages

Frankly I thought this was non-fiction, but it is a novel. Both books are in a top condition, which is also nice.

Oh fuck me, they are both beautiful.

Is that Agnetha from ABBA, or am I just fantasizing?

And, yes, they are both beautiful.  The right one and the left one.  

[jamesdoig]

Nice page of pulp covers for classics: lithub.com/50-pulp-cover-treatments-of-classic-works-of-literature/

[kooshmeister]

Probably the best War of the Worlds cover out there. Surprisingly horrific for Watermill, whose books were generally sold to schools over here. I own this and only just now realized the guy's pinky and ring finger look like they're being shot off! And that's a pretty scary face with the blank, lifeless eyes!

[dem]

Many thanks to Steve (helrunar) for sending these in. The M. Seltzer is now officially my all-time favourite cover illustration ever of the moment.

Brad Steiger - Master Movie Monsters (Merit/ Camera Arts, 1965)



M. Seltzer

John C. Cooper - The Haunted Strangler (Ace, 1959)



Hanna-Barbera - Mr & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist (Gold Key, 1963)

The two paperback covers scanned here are from the collection of a US horror fan named Scott Mitchell. I don't know anything about him beyond having been told that he designed jewellery for a living and had a stupendous horror collection. He passed away sometime ago ... These two plus the comic book cover were posted to a social media vintage horror group ... No restrictions were placed on sharing the images. I thought they might just give you a smile.

They did that, Steve, and thank you for your kind words. Very appreciated and very returned.

[helrunar]

Glad you enjoyed the scans! Posted with no strings attached in a little forum dedicated to the old commercial mag Castle of Frankenstein, which is head and shoulders my favorite commercial monster mag of all time. The Monster Times which had a brief floruit of a few years in the mid 1970s was a lot of fun, too, with some brilliant designs. Many of these are available to view on the Zombo's Closet site.

I kept thinking there was something familiar about the vision M Seltzer conjured for that Brad Steiger paperback. Then the penny dropped. Last Thursday evening I viewed a documentary on y.t., The Legend of Leigh Bowery--I don't know if little Leigh had a copy of this paperback (seems unlikely since Leigh grew up in some remote town called Sunshine, Australia), but the face looks an awful lot like one of Leigh's default designs for his bizarre masking and costuming work during the Eighties.

cheers, Steve

[Swampirella]

Dec 16, 2007 16:49:29 GMT dem said:

Covers you love:

Bearing in mind we already have threads for the worst, most badly posed and somewhat risque, this ones nice and straightforward. Covers you love!

Can't even date the one above as half the book is missing (!) but the second is the Panther 1968 edition. There's just something in the squalor, brutality, pathos and tragedy of Newgate that seems to bring out the best in these artists.

I can still remember my teenage disappointment at reading the dry contents after being "seduced" by this cover...

[jamesdoig]

This one had a sticker from a well-known Sydney shop - they always tear half the cover off when you try to remove it. Steaming it off worked perfectly:



Same book, same problem, and look what happened when I applied the same remedy - it blanched the bloody thing:



Great read though.

[mcannon]

Apr 20, 2020 21:24:18 GMT jamesdoig said:

This one had a sticker from a well-known Sydney shop - they always tear half the cover off when you try to remove it. Steaming it off worked perfectly:



Same book, same problem, and look what happened when I applied the same remedy - it blanched the bloody thing:



Great read though.

Mrs mcannon's go-to method for removing stickers is to use a hair-dryer to blow hot, dry air onto the offensive item. It doesn't always work, but it's usually quite effective.

The sticker wouldn't have been a Lawson's one would it? Of the "classic" Sydney second-hand book shops, they had by far the most adhesive price stickers. They were usually almost impossible to remove without damaging the cover and, being made of a plastic material, couldn't even be sponged off. I probably still have some old paperbacks, SF digests and comics that have had stickers firmly affixed for over 40 years.

Mark