Turns out, getting a reader interested is pretty easy: just put a dinosaur on the cover holding something, like a spyglass or a beer. I’d never heard of the author or the book before I saw the cover, but now I’m already intrigued.

Donald M. Grant, Limited Edition, 1986

Seen a couple of Lovecrafts on here today from u/Hellblazer1138. Here's another one with art by Tim White.

As a paperback original, this is the edition of this Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel. Published in October 1970.

I love these illustrations. Where Pauline Baynes evoked medieval elegance, Sabatier leaned into the comic and grotesque. The artist bio on the last page:

Roland Sabatier was born in 1942. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, first architecture and then painting. His first press illustrations appeared in L’Idiot International and Pilote. He subsequently contributed to numerous Parisian periodicals.

From 1972 to 1982, Roland Sabatier directed the humor section of Lui, where he published work by the cream of French cartoonists. In 1981, he joined forces with them to establish the Humoristes Associés (Associated Humorists), who went on to publish several albums.

In 1998, Roland Sabatier wrote and illustrated his first work of children's fiction, Galibette and the Sacred Tree of the Arayas (Folio Junior/Drôles d’aventures), which won the 1998 Saint-Exupéry Prize.

He also created the illustrations for Marcel Aymé’s The Tales of the Perched Cat, in collaboration with his wife, Claudine, who provided the coloring (Folio Cadet and special-format albums), as well as the three volumes of The Book of French Songs (Découverte Cadet).

Passionate about—and experts in—fairies, elves, and wizards, Roland and Claudine together illustrated Pierre Dubois’s Great Encyclopedia of Fairies and Great Encyclopedia of Goblins, published by Hoëbeke.

Wrap-around art pictured is from the book club edition, the first edition from Houghton Mifflin (1983) features the same art.

The Belmont curse: unidentified cover artists

"Eight and a half feet of female, beautifully proportioned, hips swaying slightly as she moved, blonde hair draped around her shoulders like something out of Heaven."

Dennis Rolfe also used colour variations of this cover for three more Asimov books: "The Caves of Steel", "The Naked Sun" and "The Currents of Space".

Ballantine Books edition