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May 21, 2018 · Proximity to New York City helped him win assignments to paint covers for Permabooks, Ballantine, Pyramid, and other publishing houses. His efforts graced works by crime novelists ranging from Robert Kyle and Richard Deming to A.A. Fair (aka Erle Stanley Gardner), John Creasey, and William Campbell Gault.
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Jun 17, 2023 · Barbara Remington ( 23 June 1929 - 23 January 2020) was an American artist. She painted the cover art for Ballantine Books ' first paperback editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, for which J.R.R. Tolkien expressed dislike.
Anything But Saintly by Richard Deming (Permabooks, 1963) Artist: Robert K. Abbett. What’s most interesting about the cover of this novel, which has to do with vice and corruption in a small town, is how much is left to the imagination.
Robert Kennedy Abbett (b. 1926, Hammond, Indiana) is an American artist and illustrator. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction.
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Barbara Remington, who designed the hallucinogenic cover for the Ballantine edition of The Lord of the Rings, says she hadn’t even read the book when she painted the commissioned cover. And that’s just fine.
1. Robert McGinnis. Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment), Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helmfilms.
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Scanning the face-out selection of offense press whodunit novels in a modern American bookstores, one can’t promote but recognize homogeneity in cover designs. There are certainly exceptional.
