#gino ​d’achille

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Gino D’Achille

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Terror from the Sea. Art by Gino D’Achille

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Gino d’Achille, Figure of Eight, 1970.

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Gino D’Achille

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Gino D’Achille

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CONAN   (Oil on Canvas) by Gino d’Achille

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"THE GREEN MEN OF MARS FEAR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SAVE THE WHITE APES THAT LURK IN THE VAST, ABANDONED CITIES..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on cover art to the 1977 republication of "The Mastermind of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the sixth novel set upon the realm of Barsoom. Artwork by the late, great Gino D’Achill (1935-2017). Ballantine Books.

"The green men, Tars' people, fear absolutely nothing save the white apes that lurk the vast, abandoned cities dotting the shores of Mars long-since evaporated seas. The apes have a keenly developed taste for the flesh of green Martian youths. It is their habit to steal the hapless youngsters from their caretakers and drag them into the bowels of derelict buildings of the ancients, where they are devoured with deliberation and great relish."

-- JOHN CARTER (script by Arvid Nelson)

Resolution at 1375x2048 & 958x1600.

Sources: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/54113632999646310 & https://twitter.com/RecycleBook/status/705831233595449344/photo/3.

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Terror from the Sea. Art by Gino D’Achille

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Daphne du Maurier paperbacks, 1958-1976.

#2 by Clark Hulings, #4, 5, & 6 by Gino D’Achille.

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A Princess of Mars by Gino D’Achille

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Gino D’Achille

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Gino D’Achille, cover illustration for Thuvia, Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1916; Ballantine Books, 1973).

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Sci-fi illustrations by Gino d’Achille (1935-2017), for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars series mostly.

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The first three of the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars/Barsoom series of novels, released by Ballantine Books/Del Rey in 1973, with covers by Gino D’Achille.  

I was already familiar with Burroughs from his Tarzan novels, so I was excited to read more of his work.  However, there was something about the realistic work of those cover paintings that drew me in.

These were my first experience with John Carter and the world of Barsoom.  I remember seeing the books in the extremely tiny “science fiction/fantasy” section (literally less than one shelf!) of the bookstore nearest to me when I was growing up in the wilds of eastern Long Island.  This bookstore was soooooo snooty that they would not carry paperback books until shortly before these were released.

The books had a $1.25 or $1.50 price tag then, but consider that paperbacks are going for nearly $10 now and you’ll understand how expensive they were for a kid.  I was already dealing with sticker shock from comic books going from 20 cents to 25 cents that year (a 25% price increase!).  Still, I could buy 5 or 6 comics for the price of one of these books, so they represented one heck of an investment for me.

Luckily, I was flush with cash (a whole $5) from mowing my grandparents’ lawn and weeding their garden, so I splurged on these three books.  I’m glad I did because I didn’t know at the time that they were a trilogy.  I was pretty sure that once the bookstore sold out the staff wouldn’t order any more.  And I was right.

For the longest time these were the only Barsoom books I was able to find (libraries around me, or at least the ones I could reach by bike, didn’t carry any novels by Burroughs), so I ended up reading these over and over again.  So much so that the covers fell off and the books fell apart.

At the time I was never able to find all the books in this release in any stores.  Oh, I could find the odd #8 (Swords of Mars), or #10 (Llana of Gathol), but I wanted to read them all in order!

It wasn't until years later, when the complete series was re-released with those wonderful Michael Whelan covers, that I was able to get a complete set.

But I never forgot those D’Achille covers.

Here they are in their entirety:

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RETURN TO EDEN 🦣 // Harry Harrison Cover // Gino D’Achille Publisher // Grafton (1989)