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Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Worm Wishes

Cleaning up my attic I found my paperback copy of The Worm Ouroborous, which, despite owning for 50 years, I've never read!

My copy is the 1967 edition by American publisher Ballantine. It's a chunky novel.

The fantastic cover art, which made me buy it all those years ago, is by Minnesota-born Barbara Remington, who sadly passed away in 2020.


Barbara Remington also illustrated the covers of the first official (although not the first overall) American paperback publication of The Lord of the Rings on 1965.

Painted in her fabulous style these three books would find a happy home at Moonbase if I found them at a boot sale, although I must say I've never seen them here in Blighty.


Do you like these covers? 

Have you got the books readers?

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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous4/29/2025 10:56 am

    Lovely classic fantasy artwork. Ive never read the worm either, but the thing is, if you started it, would you ever be able to finish it?

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    1. WOODSY4/29/2025 4:31 pm

      Ha ha, very droll. Ourorobus, it's very meaning!

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  2. Anonymous4/29/2025 2:45 pm

    Barbara Remington rocks! Lovely fantasy artwork. Unfortunately, I cannot read those long, laborious fantasy novels - they bore me to tears. Short Sci-Fi Stories all the way! SFZ

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    1. WOODSY4/29/2025 4:48 pm

      Bored of the Rings SF! Ha ha. Listen to it instead, online! Great fun.

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    2. Anonymous4/29/2025 5:10 pm

      I got a copy of Jack Vance 'The Dying Earth' sequence the other day, so I could see his influence on one of my favourite authors, Gene Wolfe. Five minutes in and the flowery language and unpronouncable names made me give up. Im too old and impatient for dry fantasy, so the seventeenth century style of Ouroboros will not be getting a look in here! Bill

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    3. WOODSY4/29/2025 5:56 pm

      I've a Jack Vance double ace Bill. Two books in one! You'd love it!

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  3. Ed and Bettina Berg4/29/2025 2:54 pm

    Oh wow! Those three LOTR covers were the ones I first had back in '71-72. Unfortunately, when I bought the hardbound books, my paperbacks were all given away. Thanx for sharing Woodsy!

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    1. WOODSY4/29/2025 4:49 pm

      You still got your hardbacks Ed?

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    2. Ed and Bettina Berg4/29/2025 5:19 pm

      Oh heck yeah!! hahaha I used those to make my annual pilgrimage to Middle Earth for many years! 'The Hobbit' was a separate book bound in green and has a slipcover (or case). The three LOTR volumes were all bound in one large book in red, and also has a slip cover or case

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    3. WOODSY4/29/2025 5:56 pm

      Pictures please Gandalf!

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    4. WOODSY4/29/2025 9:14 pm

      Thanks for snaps Ed!

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    5. Ed and Bettina Berg4/29/2025 10:58 pm

      U betcha!

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