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Old 17 July 2008, 05:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
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More - with known artists

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

Warneford VC by Tony Corbett
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Stepchild Pilot by Bjorn Karytrom
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High Adventure by Gerald Muir
Highslide JS

That’s My Bloody Plane by Peter Endsleigh Castle
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Black Swallow of Death by George Evans
Highslide JS

Early Bird design by Gerald Wilkinson
Highslide JS

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Old 17 July 2008, 05:08 PM   #12 (permalink)
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And some more - full covers all

The Clouds Remember by Leonard Bridgman
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War Birds by Clayton Knight
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The Bright Blue Sky by Doug Post
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Old 18 July 2008, 01:48 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Some unknown artists

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

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

Highslide JS

Highslide JS

Highslide JS

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

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Old 18 July 2008, 03:28 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Great stuff

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.
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Old 18 July 2008, 03:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Dan,

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

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Old 18 July 2008, 04:59 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Here's the Valigursky cover for the '68 Ace paperback of Fighting Airman, Biddle's memoirs
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Old 18 July 2008, 05:10 PM   #17 (permalink)
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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.

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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.
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Old 18 July 2008, 07:21 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Here's a mix

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
Highslide JS

Artist unknown
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by Clayton Knight
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by Rudolph Belarski
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Probably Clayton Knight, although I'm not sure
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unknown
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More to come,

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Old 18 July 2008, 07:31 PM   #20 (permalink)
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The German perspective

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:

Highslide JS

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.
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