Thanks for the link, great video! I need to get on to one of these live sessions one of these days. I greatly admire the work of Mr Manchess. I have a handful of the original logo books with his artwork and but missed a few of them. I wish I would have bought all of them now.

The retro cover books would have been terrific. A few of us crazy nuts own multiple copies of these things, and I'm one of them. :)

I remember being disappointed to see classic covers being replaced over time with the very type of stiff portrait images that you talked about in the video. I didn't like them much and I missed those classic vintage art pieces. Old covers like Shalako, Matagorda, High Lonesome,Taggart...and Silver Canyon by James Bama, my very first Louis L'Amour purchase back in 1979. You can't judge a book by its cover but that the cover can certainly pull you in.