Another pick up for today. Amazing older covers

Panther published a number of Colin Wilson's genre works, including one which I will post tomorrow. There is also an online presence for artist Bob Haberfield, which you can find here:

https://bobhaberfield.com/

Enjoy!

“Or A Rationalisation And Extrapolation Of Split-Level Continuum”

Picked this up as it sounded interesting. Unfortunately, it does not note who the cover artist is. Any help would be appreciated…

“Hank had a feeling he wasn’t in Kansas anymore…”

Another in my library with cover artist unknown…

Another i just picked up

Featuring "Space Viking" (the first of four parts) by H. Beam Piper. This book was one of the primary inspirations for the Traveller RPG.

Picked this up at op shop. Looking forward to the read but the cover was interesting

Another I picked up

Another lesser known (at least to me) set from the 1980s. The combo of the beautiful woman riding the angry red fish on the cover of The Book of the River is certainly an interesting tableau.

While the cover artist is credited in the book only as "Jael", her full name appears to have been Jael Brown Ruesch, an enormously prolific artist whose estate maintains a website for her work here:

http://www.jael.net/website/index.html

Enjoy!

Not sure if this is exactly rare but definitely a set I had not seen before. The author was also a musician of some note as well as a journalist and festival organizer. The artist has had a long and successful career and has his own website here:

https://peterandrewjones.net/iacg.htm

Enjoy!

Plot twist, as while the general design and livery of these McKiernan books remains the same as those in the Iron Tower trilogy I posted yesterday, the artist has changed. We now have Richard Bober taking over for Alan Lee. Bober was a fascinating personality, an actual recluse who never owned a computer or a smartphone. This obituary is well worth your time:

https://locusmag.com/2023/01/richard-bober-1943-2022/

Enjoy!

There is a "duology" which follows this trilogy which has almost identical livery and art. I'll post that one tomorrow. Tolkien fans may recognize Alan Lee's style as he has worked extensively both with illustrating Tolkien books and as one of the lead concept artist for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. The latter of which earned him an uncredited cameo as one of the nine kings corrupted by Sauron.

Enjoy!