09 March 2015

Classic SF Book Covers- CITY

Classic SF (as well as other genres of course ) gets reprinted many times over the years , in various formats. Here we start looking at some of the more interesting covers to classic works.


CITY by Clifford D. Simak was first published in book form in 1952 by Gnome Press. It had previously been printed in Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction   in May of 1944.

First edition, cover by Kelly Freas, 1952




British edition, 1954. Cover by C. King.




First paperback, 1954. Cover by Richard Powers


1958 ACE paperback with iconic Ed Valigursky cover


1961 SFBC edition, cover by John Griffiths

This 1965 British edition had lots of commentary by Simak.



Rather mundane 1965 Dutch edition



French, 1971


British paperback, 1971.  Eddie Jones' cover was obviously inspired by the 1958 ACE edition.

1973 ACE paperback, cover by Davis Meltzer




Another Dutch edition, cover by  Marion Crezée 1976




Gary Viskupic did the cover for this 1979 SFBC edition








1981 ACE



French, 1987

1982 hardcover, cover by Michael Budden





2003 French



2003 SFBC, cover by  Donato Giancola


2004 hardcover, illustration by  Douglas Klauba


2011 British trade paperback

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