I saw this modern magazine cover online - above - Locus - and was immediately reminded of a an old paperback I've had in my book collection for decades. Since my late teens in fact.
The Worm Ouroboros
by E.R.Eddison
This wonderful cover with the encircling 'worm' was by artist Barbara Remington.
You will instantly recognise her style when you see it.
She did many Ballantine Books covers including Tolkien's Lord of the Rings like this one,
Amazingly Remington hadn't read the trilogy before she illustrated the covers!
Having said that, I still haven't read the Worm Ouroboros!
Have you any of Barbara Remington's cover art?
They're lovely illustrated covers aren't they, Woodsy. I don't have any of these books, but I do have six sci fi and fantasy postcards I bought back in the late seventies and kept ever since. I'll send you some pics which you're welcome to share with the readers :)
ReplyDeleteSounds cool Tone. Looking forward to them.
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