Favorite Finds: “Odds Against Tomorrow”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



Odds Against Tomorrow, by William P. McGivern (Cardinal, 1959). Cover art by Jerry Allison.

Favorite Finds: “Lead with Your Left”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



Lead with Your Left, by “Ed Lacy,” aka Leonard “Len” S. Zinberg (Permabooks, 1958). Cover art by Robert Schulz.

Favorite Finds: “The Hellions”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



The Hellions, by “Tony Calvano,” aka Thomas P. Ramirez (Leisure, 1965). Cover art by Robert Bonfils—of course.

Favorite Finds: “Faithful for Eight Hours”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



Faithful for Eight Hours, by “Alfred Blake,” aka Laurence M. Janifer (Beacon, 1963). Cover art by Lou Marchetti.

Favorite Finds: “Serenade”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



Serenade, by James M. Cain (Bantam, 1968). While the cover artist is not identified, the best guess is it was William A. Edwards, who’s better recognized for creating the artwork for Bantam’s 1970s series of Hermann Hesse paperbacks.

Favorite Finds: “Intimations of Eve”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



Intimations of Eve, by Vardis Fisher (Pyramid, 1961), the third installment in his 12-book series, “The Testament of Man.”
Cover art by Jack Thurston.

Favorite Finds: “A Big Man, a Fast Man”

Top vintage book fronts added to my collection in 2018.



A Big Man, a Fast Man, by Benjamin Appel (Permabooks, 1962). Cover artist unidentified.

Favorite Finds: “Sun in the Hunter’s Eyes”

Every year, I browse through thousands of book-cover images online, saving out those about which I would like to find some excuse to write. And every year, my imagination fails to provide me with sufficient reason to comment on a many of my choices. Rather than dispose of the excess, I keep the scans in my computer files, hoping to one day include them in a themed celebration of cover work or perhaps a gallery of paintings by their artists. But why wait? For the next week, I’ll be posting some favorite book art discovered during 2018, beginning with today’s example: Sun in the Hunter’s Eyes, by Mark Derby (Crest, 1959), with cover art by Ted CoConis.