Wolfe covers

Tony Ellis · 01 Jan 2011, 21:28 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:28:51 +0000
Subject: (urth) Wolfe covers
Message-ID: <AANLkTiniVFRiOUe+9VzC4J2MFvRG834PGFkyUfWAbH4Z at mail.gmail.com>

Daniel Petersen wrote:
>Did you by any chance get and/or read these
> versions when they came out in the (I presume) 80s? ?I just wonder if that
> helps give a certain sentimental/nostalgic value (which I would completely
> understand).

Yes and yes, definitely. I couldn't be objective about them if I tried.
It was a very exciting time to be young and reading SF: here were
these superlative-laden covers cropping up in various British
magazines, and you could turn to a review of Claw or Lictor in the
same issue telling you that the next volume of this mysterious
masterpiece was now on its way across the Atlantic.

And then to *own* them, and read them over and over... Wolfe writes in
Castle of Days: "There was a time when I could put the palm of my hand
flat on the front of a tattered paperback called The Dying Earth and
feel the magic seeping through the cardboard..." and I know *exactly*
what he means.

Thanks for the photostream: many covers there I've never seen before,
and a few are outstanding. The 5HoC covers are physically painful.

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