>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.

Covers really were a significant in catching new readers, less so now that most people do their shopping on line. That's the one reason I was up for the non-illustrated, photo sourced covers of a few years ago, I didn't really like them, I didn't think I was going to be able to convert all the books to them, because they would get repetitive, but when the publisher insisted I figured we might capture people that every previous cover did not appeal to. It was an interesting experiment. I'm glad it's over.

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