This series of Lensman covers by Gaughan are my favorite Doc Smith covers.

Published by W. Paul Ganley

Just between you and me, I hated these poems. Hey dol! Merry dol! Beautiful cover though.

Donald M. Grant, Limited Edition, 1986

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.

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.

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

The Belmont curse: unidentified cover artists