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1. crimereads.com › 12-cover-artists-every-vintage12 Cover Artists Every Vintage Crime Lover Should Know

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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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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Barbara_RemingtonBarbara Remington - Wikipedia

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   Barbara Remington (23 June 1929 – 23 January 2020) [1] was an American artist and illustrator. Born in Minnesota, she was probably best known for her cover-art for Ballantine Books ' first paperback editions of J. R. R. Tolkien 's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and for her Tolkien-related poster A Map of Middle-earth. [2]

4. tolkiengateway.net › wiki › Barbara_RemingtonBarbara Remington - Tolkien Gateway

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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.

5. www.hesperidean.com › ballantine-coversBallantine Covers - Hesperidean

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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.

6. www.tolkiensociety.org › blog › 2020Barbara Remington – The Tolkien Society

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   Feb 19, 2020 · Barbara Remington has died, at 90. Really old-time Tolkienists will remember her name as that of the artist who created the covers for the first issue of the Ballantine paperbacks of The Lord of the Rings, which may be seen pictured in her obituary here.

7. boingboing.net › 2013/12/05 › original-ballantineOriginal Ballantine book cover concept art for J.R.R Tolkien ...

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   Dec 5, 2013 · J.R.R Tolkien, Original Ballantine Book Cover Concept Art, By Barbara Remington, as used on the 1965 The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings

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   Who painted a cover for Permabooks & Ballantine?

   • 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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   What was Ballantine's goal?

   • Ballantine’s goal was to get the books in the shops quickly, to compete with the unauthorized Ace paperbacks, so they gave Remington very little time to work. She hadn’t then read the novel and had little opportunity to find out anything about it, consequently this surreal and impressionistic thing came into being.

   Barbara Remington – The Tolkien Society

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   Why did a drugstore spinner rack have a cover painting?

   • During the mid-20th century, when the spread of low-cost paperbacks revolutionized the book-publishing industry, newsstands and drugstore spinner racks were packed with tales of criminality boasting commissioned cover paintings intended to titillate, shock, and thereby separate customers (primarily men at the time) from portions of their paychecks.

   12 Cover Artists Every Vintage Crime Lover Should Know

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   Are hand-painted wrappers a Renaissance?

   • In our present era, when stock photography dominates and is too often duplicated on book fronts, and every other cover features a shadowy figure in flight, nostalgia for the unique and seductive illustrations of half a century ago is understandable. Too bad it’s unlikely to foment a renaissance of hand-painted wrappers anytime soon.

   “Where Sleaze Meets Artistry”: 12 Great Crime Novel Covers

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9. www.litromagazine.com › literature › where-sleaze“Where Sleaze Meets Artistry”: 12 Great Crime Novel Covers

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   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.