WWI Aviation books cover art

[Gregvan]

Hi Germanophile-1;

Thanks for posting that - don't know why I didn't think of it. Yes, Jim's book is a visual treasuare, and contains some fascinating insights and information as well. In fact, here's the back cover so viewers can see a bit more of Jim's profile work:


Now, for a complete contrast, here's a W.E. Johns book with artwork by Stanley Orton Bradshaw:


And, in the 'lazy research' category, here's a cover for Arch Whitehouse's "The Zeppelin Killers" I'd not seen before. It looks like the unknown artist copied a publicity shot of actor Don Stroud from Von Richthofen and Brown, and swiped a bit of the Hindenburg explosion and added a few biplanes. Geeze!:

[Gregvan]

Hi,

Here is a French offering; it's a magazine sort of like Osprey's "duel" series of books, in which two opposing aircraft are described along with their pilots. Nice stuff on the Fokker Eindecker and Nieuport 11.

[Gregvan]

OK, it's official. I'm adicted to finding new pulp magazine covers. Here's "Sky Fighters" from 1937.



Hopefully I haven't posted this previously. "Daredevil Aces", September 1933, featuring LVG C.V's and what I think is a Halberstadt and Nieuport:


This is a recently-published compilation of air war pulp stories by Lester Dent, with cover by Rudolph Belarski. I like the artist's treatment of the metaphor of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for the flight of SE5a's - this is the kind of thing Belarski did so well:

[dpolglaze]

I've reloaded on the website pictures from my posts between 81-140. Hold cursor over the picture to see artist name if known.

WWI Aviation - WWI Aviation Cover Art Aerodrome posts 81-140

Post #88
Rickenbacker
The First Team by John T. McCoy
A Few of the First credited to Imperial War museum

Post #113
Hydroaeroplanes M9 & M24, Vol. 1 by Mike O'Neal
Hydroaeroplanes M5 & M20 by Mike O'neal

Post #120
Aircraft of the Imperial Russian navy 1894-1917 vol.1 unknown artist
British Fighter Units 1914-1916 by Michael Trim or G.A. Embleton
British Fighter Units 1917-1918 by Michael Roffe

Post #128
Hydroaeroplanes M9 & M24 vol. 2 by GM Dolbik
Diary of a Rookie by Wallace MacDougall (MAC)

Post #130
Boelcke-Immelmann-Richthofen by unknown
Der Rote Baron by unknown
The Red Baron by unknown

Post #133
They Fought for the Sky by John T. McCoy
German Fighter Units 1914 - May 1917 front & back by Michael Roffe
German Fighter Units June 1917 - 1918 front & back by Michael Roffe

More pics to come.

Dan

[Balloon_Buster]

How about one of the covers of Captain Eddie's book?

[dpolglaze]

Thanks for that, balloonbuster. There are almost as many Flying Circus covers as there are Red Baron covers.

Here's a couple more covers:

I posted the History of the 91st Aero recently. Here's the very similar illustration by Terry Badham on the cover of a book of his artwork:


This one is Steven C. Garst:


Greg, I found several more MAN covers. More Jo Kotula is on the way.

Dan

[dpolglaze]

How about some more Don Greer?





Dan

[dpolglaze]

Two days, no covers. Must post more.

For Greg, here's some MAN covers by Jo Kotula - March and April 1965






Dan

[dpolglaze]

I could let this thread go, but I'm still having fun.

Here's some more line art, probably done by Robert Casari himself. There are seven books of his on U.S. Military Aircraft. Here are the three on the World War I Production Program.







Dan

[Romani]

With permission from Greg Van Wyngarden, editor, I would like to post a couple "Over the Front" magazine covers I recently acquired. I believe this pic appeared at some time in the Aerodrome gallery. I hope it is all right , if not moderator please take down the image and I will post some other stuff.

Presented here is this evocative painting of Tom Leamon covering the feat of Obltn Richard Falke and pilot Ltn Paul Schultheiss who on 13 Nov 1916 took off in their Rumpler CI from Beersheba in Palestine, and flew 5 hours and a half non stop to Cairo, dropped bombs and took photos of the Pyramids. Volume 13, Number 1 Spring 1998
(scanned at original size)