Another post featuring a sample of art from the amazing Bob Pepper this piece used as the cover for an edition of the 1977 Jody Scott novel “Passing for Human”.
Scan via vintage sci-fi goldmine Ski-ffy.blogspot.com see more of Bob Pepper’s Cover Artwork here: http://ski-ffy.blogspot.com/search/label/Bob%20Pepper
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For a further collection of Bob Pepper’s cover’s check this Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/sets/72157603661657927/
Book Cover art from the amazing Bob Pepper, dating from 1963. A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence - read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus
Image sourced via Flickr User: LarsPowderdry http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/
The Worm Ouroboros (1922) is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison - So predates Tolkien’s work. This cover is from the Ballatine Books Reprint in the 1960s - I’m not sure if the art is by Bob Pepper or Keith Henderson…
The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas. A half-finished framing story describes this world as Mercury, though it is clearly a fantasy version of Earth, a “secondary-world” (no effort was made to conform to the scientific knowledge of Mercury, as it existed at the time of writing)… Read more at Wiki
This cover has come from a library of Ballatine Book covers here: http://www.skwishmi.com/interests/baf.html lots of other Art Nouveau / Psychadelic influenced Book Covers from the likes Bob Pepper, David Johnston, Ian Miller and more…
This novel aside, the Ouroboros itself is a very interesting concept that’s spanned across cultures and through generations - Ouroboros, the Worm, Serpent, or Dragon depicted devouring it’s own tail to form a Circle - often used to represent cyclicality or infinity… Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
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