WWI Aviation books cover art

[dpolglaze]

Here are more - all artists known or identified in these:

Warneford VC by Tony Corbett


Stepchild Pilot by Bjorn Karytrom


High Adventure by Gerald Muir


That’s My Bloody Plane by Peter Endsleigh Castle


Black Swallow of Death by George Evans


Early Bird design by Gerald Wilkinson


Dan

[dpolglaze]

The Clouds Remember by Leonard Bridgman


War Birds by Clayton Knight


The Bright Blue Sky by Doug Post


Dan

[dpolglaze]

Since people keep looking, I'll keep posting ...



This one is probably by Charles Huard - he did the illustrations for the book and the style looks the same, to my untrained eye:








A different Wind in the Wires - this may be the third different one, but I like it...


Dan

[Gregvan]

Hi Dan,

Thanks so much for posting these - they're great!

I never realized that the cover to The Black Swallow of Death was by our old friend George Evans. I should have known.

Actually, the cover artist for Stepchild Pilot is Bjorn Karlstrom. He was (is?) an aviation artist and draftsman who did some wonderful color four-views and scale plans for American Aircraft Modeler and other mags back in the late '60's and '70's.

The cover you just posted for Wind in the Wires bears the same painting as one of the covers for Peter Saxon's trilogy ("The Enemy Sky") that Pete Hill posted in the other thread (but which is now gone) . However, this artist is not Brian Knight, who did the paperback covers I'm familiar with.

[FliegerJG1]

Dan,

Thanks for posting all the wonderful cover art! I'm enjoying these too!

FliegerJG1

[karrart]

Oh yeah. I'm digging the heck out of this thread!
Here's the Valigursky cover for the '68 Ace paperback of Fighting Airman, Biddle's memoirs
Robert Karr
OLD BIRDS STAYING ALIVE - THE AVIATION ART OF ROBERT KARR

[SCMc]

I think that my favorite so far is the cover of Warneford, V.C., with the frail looking Morane-Saulnier attacking the zeppelin. It gives a sense of what he accomplished.

Steve

[Pete Hill]

Hi Guys.
Thanks, Dan for starting this thread, it is great! Love the cover art. I especially love the cover for 'Warring Sky' by Peter Saxon, I want to paint my own version!
Interestingly, the cover art you have posted here for 'Wind in the Wires' was also used for the p/b edition of Peter Saxon's 'The Enemy Sky' that I own.
Keep 'em coming! Pete.
PS, anyone is welcome to write reviews for any of these novels in my fiction novels of WW1 thread.

[dpolglaze]

Thanks, Greg, for correcting my artist name on Stepchild Pilot. I tried reading it off the cover, but clearly missed. Also, pulled The Unfeeling Sky and can get a wrap-around of the whole cover, perhaps this weekend. This is kind of fun.

My image host has occasional glitches, but the files are all still there - refresh if they don't show up.

by Bill Crawford


Artist unknown


by Clayton Knight


by Rudolph Belarski


Probably Clayton Knight, although I'm not sure


unknown


More to come,

Dan

[Gregvan]

Hi,

On the very slight chance I might possibly have one or two books that Dan doesn't, I thought I'd present some German bookcover art from the '30's:



Werner Chomton was, if I'm not mistaken, a German two-seater veteran of the war who not only authored this book loosely based on his experiences but also painted the cover and illustrated it with his own pen and ink sketches. He became sort of the go-to guy for aviation illustration for several other books, such as Hermann Kohl's biography of MvR.