Hughes Rian - Rayguns And Rocketships Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Science fiction paperbacks exploded over the 1940s and '50s literary landscape with the force of an alien gamma bomb. Titles such as Rodent Mutation! Beyond the Galaxy Dawn of the Mutants and Mushroom Men from Mars appeared from fly - by - night publishers making the most of the end of post - war paper rationing. The stories were often conceived around a pre - commissioned cover from an artist and a title suggested by the publisher. Despite the punishing deadlines and poor pay the books cover artists managed to produce artworks of multihued brain - bending brilliance and collected here is some of the best of their output during an unparalleled period of brash optimism and opportunism in book publishing. Beware the space fiend!
Title: Rayguns And Rocketships Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art
Author(s): Hughes Rian
Publisher: Korero Press
Barcode: 9781912740048
Pages: 384 Pages, 384 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/1/2022
Category: Illustration