Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:20:51 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
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Subject: [WSFA] Re: annoyances: looking for classic pulp sf cover
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> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 4/16/2011 9:25 PM >>>
>Ted White wrote:
>> On 4/16/2011 11:32 AM, mark wrote:
>>
>>>  I was talking about making a coffee table train set, but futuristic.
>>>  I was looking for the classic pulp cover, with someone(s) flying
>>>  towards a futuristic city, skyscrapers shaped like giant rockets,
>>>  flying bridges, all in parkland... and can't find it googling. Anyone
>>>  have a link?
>>
>> Many of Frank R. Paul's covers for AMAZING (1926-29), WONDER STORIES
>> (1929-36) or his back covers for AMAZING in the late '30s and early =
'40s
>> will fit your needs.

Indeed.  As a matter of fact, one of Paul's back cover pieces for Amazing =
appeared as the cover to a Johns Hopkins book: http://tinyurl.com/ycck5ea=

>Didn't see any, at least yet, but Bill Higgins pointed me to
><http://www.coverbrowser.com/>, where I just spent a half an hour or =
so
>going through pulp covers, and having a wonderful time, back when =
there
>was more sf than fantasy, and the future was so *big*....

There's this thing called Google Image search.  Search for: "frank r. =
paul" city  - you get lots of images.

mjw