Title: By Blood Alone
Author: Frank Corey (pseud. of George Fox)
Cover artist: [illegible signature, no artist credit, infuriating]
Condition: 8/10
Value: $10-$12
[Another book from the recently acquired Larry D Collection]
Best things about this cover:
- Watch out boy, she'll chew you up.
- She appears to be sitting in the blood of her (their?) prey. I assume she is the one who lives ... by blood alone. I love how she's looking at you (yes you, the reader) like "Hello, you're next. Oh, don't mind Larry. [turns to Larry in disgust] He was just leaving." [Larry, shouting like Sterling Hayden in The Long Goodbye] "Yeah, well, I need more than just blood, baby! Whiskey! Asparagus! Tic Tacs! The blood's great and all, but a man's gotta live! Nah, you have fun with your little friend here. I'll see you when I see you."
- Larry appears to have some kind of medallion nestled in his chest hair. Swingin'! He looks like he's getting ready to hit the disco, or maybe just do some light swashbuckling.
- Wrought-iron bed frames make a nice ornamental touch. Some great covers have been built around bed frames. Like this one (in fact ... is that Larry again? He gets around):
And now the back cover:
Best things about this back cover:
- "SCARRED" is a singularly un-grabby tagline, but it does rhyme with "marred" in the first sentence there, so I guess that's ... something.
- Is there such thing as a *gentle* attack with a hammer?
- Please, hammer, don't scar 'em
- "Make the paragraphs red then black ... then black then red" "Okey dokey, any reason in part-" "I have no good ideas, OK, are you happy, just do it!"
- "Second generation" should be hyphenated. And speaking of hyphens, the "rack- / eteer" line break is killing me.
- There should be a comma after "head," why am I doing all the copyediting work here, come on!
Page 123~
"What is he?" Rebellion and disillusionment rang in the simple question."A renegade without money or ties, virtually cut off from human society."
That last bit would look cool on a business card.
~RP
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4 comments:
I guess Larry there is lighting his cigarette with a paper match. Looks sort of awkward and unnatural. But when I first glimpsed the cover art, I thought he was doing the Clark Kent pulling open his shirt to transform into Superman thing.
And for the first time ever, I noticed that the "M" in the Berkley Medallion logo is in a different font size, maybe even a different typeface, than the rest of the word "medallion." For some reason, it really bugs me.
Wow, good eye!! That “M” is inexplicably doing its own thing, for sure.
—RP
Right? And I clicked your Berkley tag and the first 4 or 5 books that came up had the same weird M, so it's not some printing artifact on this book.
What neither of you realise is that this is actually the name of that well-known French paperback publishing house, named after its founder, M(essieur) Ed(ouard) Allion — thus the fleur-de-lis logo.
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