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Post by andydecker on Apr 21, 2020 8:00:10 GMT
Love this cover. Best ZombieSatan/Ghost Ship cover by Thole ever.
I remembered that I had posted another version of it a few pages before. I updated the scans.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 21, 2020 8:12:12 GMT
Pretty much all of these:
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 21, 2020 21:06:36 GMT
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 Spot on - the guy who used to be across the road from the Queen Victoria building. He died - didn't he? - quite a few years ago and his wife took over, but I think the shop has gone now. He's got a lot to answer for with those stickers.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 15, 2021 6:21:51 GMT
This site was posted to a vintage paperback group I am on. If you scroll down below the annoying advert and weird is-it-a-banner? fiddly blurry thing, you'll see a sumptuous gallery of the work of British pulp cover art doyen of the 1950s, Reginald Heade. aaarwin.wixsite.com/the-sergeant/reginald-headeReally quite endearingly salacious... the man clearly loved his work. H.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 25, 2023 15:45:53 GMT
I really think the 1970s was the best period for cover art. It's been all downhill from there. the current age is an all-time low, like a spanner for the cover of The Turn of the Screw, and the future offers up AI, if they can work out the amount of fingers. It's a depressing thought really. If AI does everything for you then what is the point? unsubscribedblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/twelve-more-richard-powers-covers/
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Post by samdawson on Sept 26, 2023 9:43:12 GMT
I suspect you're right, though the foundations were perhaps laid in the 1960s, also a golden era for covers. For anyone on Facebook who hasn't yet seen it, there is a group for horror paperback covers at www.facebook.com/groups/461689218889671 on which some absolute gems turn up. Like the FB group Retro Rockets and (even more so) the one for the Detectorists TV series, it's one of those pleasant groups where people seem to share an enthusiasm without attacking other posters. It also offers an alternative way to track down forgotten short stories/novels by giving a brief synopsis but also any remembered details of the cover.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 26, 2023 11:45:28 GMT
Wouldn't it be wonderful if modern architects were as imaginative as SF artists.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 26, 2023 12:57:43 GMT
For anyone on Facebook who hasn't yet seen it, there is a group for horror paperback covers at www.facebook.com/groups/461689218889671 on which some absolute gems turn up. Like the FB group Retro Rockets and (even more so) the one for the Detectorists TV series, it's one of those pleasant groups where people seem to share an enthusiasm without attacking other posters. It also offers an alternative way to track down forgotten short stories/novels by giving a brief synopsis but also any remembered details of the cover. It's an interesting group. I don't use Facebook however. I liked the We Have Always Lived in the Castle cover, which it says was reused as cover art for a release of Mario Bava's Shock (Schock). I prefer the original script title Al 33 di via Orologio fa sempre freddo ("It's always cold at 33 Clock Street"), it's much more Giallo in style (I know this film is supernatural horror). Cover from goodreads.
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Post by samdawson on Sept 26, 2023 13:14:03 GMT
I know what you mean. However, having come late to Facebook I found that it's easy to share as little or as much information as one wants, and to keep away from anyone unsavoury. I'm afraid I also find it easier to post photos there. Until I randomly pulled about a 100 books off the horror shelf I had no idea how desirable some of them were to fellow enthusiasts, nor what ridiculous prices some of them now command. I'm also enjoying looking at other people's collections, and the 'thrift shop' finds of US collectors. BTW I have that Corgi Classics Ray Bradbury cover you're using on rotation as your avatar. They were a lovely series of books, several of which I luckily bought on release
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 26, 2023 13:22:48 GMT
I agree with Huxley about Bradbury at his best: "When I got to know Aldous Huxley, back when I was 30 years old," Bradbury remembered, "I had tea with him one afternoon, and he leaned forward, and he said, (Bradbury puts on a British accent and a thin, quavering old man's voice) `Do you know what you are?' And I said `No, Mr. Huxley, what am I?' He said, `You are a poet. You are a poet.' He'd read `The Martian Chronicles.' bolhafner.com/stevesreads/ibrad.html
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 26, 2023 13:38:52 GMT
I know what you mean. However, having come late to Facebook I found that it's easy to share as little or as much information as one wants, and to keep away from anyone unsavoury. I'm afraid I also find it easier to post photos there. Until I randomly pulled about a 100 books of the horror shelf I had not idea how desirable some of them were to fellow enthusiasts, nor what ridiculous prices some of the now command. I'm also enjoying looking at other people's collections, and the 'thrift shop' finds of US collectors. BTW I have that Corgi Classics Ray Bradbury cover you're using on rotation as your avatar. They were a lovely series of books, several of which I luckily bought on release Some of the groups on Facebook do seem friendlier from what I've seen, some forums attract the worst I'm afraid. We have some expensive books in our library, but I don't collect, they sit gathering dust while entropy gets to work. I like an old book that has been used, that you have picked up cheap, the more expensive it is the more you'd worry about even touching it. How many books do you own?
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Post by samdawson on Sept 26, 2023 15:35:39 GMT
How many do you own?
Far, far too many, Princess. I have three main bookshelves I've put up, each covering a whole wall, floor to ceiling, but they're never enough. The last time I put one up (in my younger daughter's room, with her blessing), it took around 750 books, which included some boxes of horror paperbacks I'd put in storage in 1984; hence their generally good state of preservation. But that still left countless boxes of books in the attic, many of which had to be carried back up there, which was and is depressing. I'm part way through a big attic rearrangement and have found about 15 more boxes. So, even if I were to be quite stringent about sorting and giving away books that I won't reread, or of which I have doubles, I think that's still around 750-1,000 hidden away up there, waiting to be re-read. All I can do is dream of a lottery win that allows us to buy a house with an extra room to use as a study.
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