Thursday, April 23, 2026

Another Look: “Forbid Me Not”

Warning: Artistic inspiration drawn from book titles may vary.



Left: Forbid Me Not, by Blair Fuller (Berkley Books, 1958); cover illustration by Charles Copeland. Right: Forbid Me Not, by Blair Fuller (Berkley Medallion, 1962), featuring cover art by Robert K. Abbett. Originally published in 1957 by Harper & Brothers as A Far Place, this was apparently one of two novels penned by Fuller, a former editor of The Paris Review and onetime creative writing teacher at Stanford University (the other being Zebina’s Mountain, 1975). He passed away in 2011 at age 84.

1 comment:

Robert Deis (aka "SubtropicBob") said...

Cool cover comparison. If I had to choose, I'd buy the one with the Copeland cover. But they're both good.