And from the same publisher, Harvill Secker, and due out two months later, yet another Orwell face-lift, this time for a hardcover edition of Animal Farm.
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UPDATE: Regarding Pohl's The Age of the Pussyfoot, featured in this post, I find I have this scan of the main illustration from its first magazine appearance. The art is by comics legend Wally Wood. Click for a bigger version.
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The Orwell one is neat, not just for the pig on two legs, but for the old-fashioned newspaper low-res screen.
Wood did so many great illustrations for sci-fi digests, like Galaxy. Unfortunately, I'm guessing most of the original art is long gone. A really crappy book came out reprinting some of that stuff, but it was like bad photocopies. Moire patterns; looked like mud. Really awful. I have some original copies of Galaxy, but to do nice scans I'd have to destroy the bindings to get them to lay flat.
One place I've come across lots of great Wood (and other) pulp art is the amazing blog Golden Age Comic Book Stories: http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/search/label/Wally%20Wood gets you to the Wood stuff, but it's amazing the other stuff he scans and puts up as well.
I subscribe to a Yahoo group full of people scanning old pulps--how they do it without wrecking the originals is beyond me, but there have been some beautiful things on there. It's at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pulpscans/
I love the orwell one as well, the red stamped Orwell and cheap looking newsprint on what looks like pig skin, like the red stamps you see on the pigs hanging in butchershop windows.
The Books Burn Badly cover is so good i would probably buy the book just for the cover.
I'm feeling imilarly--I've never read anything by Rivas, but that cover's a good enough excuse to start.
I don't like the Orwell, though clearly it matches the equivalent Nineteen Eighty-Four (and I also don't like that one as it presents the title, incorrectly, as 1984).
Hi,
The Books Burn Badly cover is by Michael Salu.
Ah, thank you--I'll amend the post now.
It iis not only a good cover... Books burn badly is an excellent piece of literature.
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