1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! - A Meeting of Minds

**Cheryl** · Aug 2 2006, 10:25 AM

I know we've discussed this before I didn't turn up the topic in a quick search...

The 1970 Corgi paperback edition of Dragonflight doesn't identify the cover artist anywhere on the book, nor is the info found in bibliographic sources like Hargreaves. When the subject came up before, I remembered the original artwork for the cover being listed for sale once on eBay (and it remained unsold, as the asking price was around $1500!), and I was sure the auction must have given the artist's name but I didn't seem to have saved the information anywhere...

Well, I found it! His name is Gianetto Coppola!

Here's what the cover looks like

As a side note, here's the text from the auction:

This is the original cover artwork for the ANNE McCAFFREY book DRAGONFLIGHT. It is for the CORGI SCIENCE-FICTION 1970 paperback. The artwork is painted on a 14.75 X 19.5" sheet of high quality illustration paper which is attached to a 15.75 X 21.5" piece of illustration board. The artists name is GIANETTO COPPOLA and the piece is painted in ink & color ink washs with a bit of prismacolor added. CORGI BOOKS is an ENGLISH publisher.

c_ris · Aug 2 2006, 10:36 AM

Rather violently coloured...

Apocalypse · Aug 2 2006, 10:54 AM

:blink: Psychodelic!

Shalyn · Aug 2 2006, 11:11 AM

*Puts on sunglasses*

It's ... erm ... colorful, to say the least.

Kath · Aug 2 2006, 11:52 AM

But rather fitting for the 70's, no?

SuzyQ · Aug 2 2006, 12:12 PM

That is one heck of a book cover! And yes, is does fit for those psychedelic seventies that is true.

The $1500 price tag just makes me giggle

edith · Aug 2 2006, 01:42 PM

very psychadelic!
Mind you, the hardback cover for DF is a bit odd! Another splodgy dragon- but just in gold this time!

P'ter · Aug 2 2006, 04:28 PM

Hey that's the one I've got!

jube · Aug 16 2006, 11:21 PM

My eyes are still recovering!

edith · Aug 17 2006, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by P'ter

Hey that's the one I've got!

Has it got the missing paragraph?

P'ter · Aug 17 2006, 01:23 PM

Elucidate. I'm still trying to find the problem people have with page 110. In mine there's no hatching going on at that point at all.

Greenrider Tresa · Aug 17 2006, 02:54 PM

That's certainly...colorful.

edith · Aug 19 2006, 03:54 AM

hang on...
rapp and whiting HB 1969 pg 89

Weyr search chapter with heading
By the Golden Egg of Faranth...
"It was over very soon. The young dragons paired off with boys. Green riders dropped down to carry off the unacceptable. Blue riders settled to the floor with their beasts and led the couples out of the cavern, the young dragons squealing, crooning, flapping wet wings as they staggered off, encouraged by their newly encouraged Weyrmates."

Corgi edition reprinted 1981 pg 78
same chapter off course!

It was over very soon. The young dragons paired off with boys. Green riders dropped down to carry off the unacceptable. Blue riders settled to the floor with their beasts squealing, crooning, flapping wet wings as they staggered off, encouraged by their newly encouraged Weyrmates."

P'ter · Aug 19 2006, 04:46 AM

No my 1970 edition is without the relevant words.

Interestingly, the 1970 version is printed by Hunt Barnard @ Aylesbury;
the 1981 version is printed by Cox & Wyman @ Reading.

So it wasn't re-typeset. Therefore they must have been working from the same data string, presumably owned and held by Transworld.

Sandi · Aug 20 2006, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edith

hang on...
rapp and whiting HB 1969 pg 89

Weyr search chapter with heading
By the Golden Egg of Faranth...
(snip)
It was over very soon. The young dragons paired off with boys. Green riders dropped down to carry off the unacceptable. Blue riders settled to the floor with their beasts squealing, crooning, flapping wet wings as they staggered off, encouraged by their newly encouraged Weyrmates."

I laughed right out loud when I read that one! Somewhere packed away I have a PB of The White Dragon with a paragraph so messed up you have to draw lines to figure it out. Another copy with the same cover has it all straightened out, though.

**Cheryl** · Aug 21 2006, 07:20 AM

Ah yes Sandi, that's the well known true first US paperback edition, which was recalled (after many many were sold) and reissued fixed still marked as the first edition. I did that one as a Collecting Highlight a couple months ago, which has details on sorting out the misplaced block of text.

Becky · Aug 21 2006, 10:02 AM

When I read WD it was my first Anne experience and I loved it so, but boy did that error cause me confusion! I think I re-read that part 10 times to finally sort it out.
It is surprising that they would sell so many and then fix and reissue as a first. Makes for fun collecting tho!

Even if it was confusing to read before they fixed it.

Aug 2 2006, 10:25 AM	#1
Cheryl Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Maryland, USA Pronouns: She/her Fan of: Pern! Now Reading: Relentless Moon by MRKowal	1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! I know we've discussed this before I didn't turn up the topic in a quick search... The 1970 Corgi paperback edition of Dragonflight doesn't identify the cover artist anywhere on the book, nor is the info found in bibliographic sources like Hargreaves. When the subject came up before, I remembered the original artwork for the cover being listed for sale once on eBay (and it remained unsold, as the asking price was around $1500!), and I was sure the auction must have given the artist's name but I didn't seem to have saved the information anywhere... Well, I found it! His name is Gianetto Coppola! Here's what the cover looks like As a side note, here's the text from the auction: This is the original cover artwork for the ANNE McCAFFREY book DRAGONFLIGHT. It is for the CORGI SCIENCE-FICTION 1970 paperback. The artwork is painted on a 14.75 X 19.5" sheet of high quality illustration paper which is attached to a 15.75 X 21.5" piece of illustration board. The artists name is GIANETTO COPPOLA and the piece is painted in ink & color ink washs with a bit of prismacolor added. CORGI BOOKS is an ENGLISH publisher. __________________ Visit one of the other sites of Cheryl's Anne McCaffrey Triad: Sariel's Guide to Pern: a detailed guide to the series The Many Works of Anne McCaffrey: largest fan site about Anne and ALL of her works McCaffrey Quest: annual trivia contest.

Aug 2 2006, 10:36 AM	#2
c_ris Journeyman Harper Roedin Wing Second Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Great Britain Fan of: the Dragonriders of Pern! Now Reading: The Elder Gods - Eddings	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! Rather violently coloured... __________________ Roedin Of Pern "When a harper is silenced, all men should listen harder." AtWoP

Aug 2 2006, 10:54 AM	#3
Apocalypse Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Windy Lane Fan of: Dragon's Dawn Now Reading: Dragon's Dawn	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! :blink: Psychodelic! __________________ Madam of The Pern House of Delights

Aug 2 2006, 11:11 AM	#4
Shalyn Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Loo-a-vull / Luhvuhl / Loo-ih-ville / Loo-a-ville / Looeyville / Lewisville Oh, Heck. Kentuckiana. Fan of: Dragonflight	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! Puts on sunglasses It's ... erm ... colorful, to say the least.

Aug 2 2006, 11:52 AM	#5
Kath Starsmith Weyrwoman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oop North Fan of: Moreta	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! But rather fitting for the 70's, no?

Aug 2 2006, 12:12 PM	#6
SuzyQ Inactive Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon Fan of: Talents Now Reading: Need more time!	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! That is one heck of a book cover! And yes, is does fit for those psychedelic seventies that is true. The $1500 price tag just makes me giggle __________________ Suzanne

Aug 2 2006, 01:42 PM	#7
edith Dragonrider Weyrwoman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delft Fan of: Most of them :) Now Reading: Don't You Have Time To Think- RP Feynman	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! very psychadelic! Mind you, the hardback cover for DF is a bit odd! Another splodgy dragon- but just in gold this time! __________________ "Should a rocket explode upon starting, it is called a "hard start." " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic

Aug 2 2006, 04:28 PM	#8
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Pronouns: He/him Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! Hey that's the one I've got! __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Aug 16 2006, 11:21 PM	#9
jube Dolphineer Journeywoman Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Fan of: Dragons of Pern Now Reading: Puzzles and my thesaurus!	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! My eyes are still recovering!

Aug 17 2006, 01:23 PM	#11
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Pronouns: He/him Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! Elucidate. I'm still trying to find the problem people have with page 110. In mine there's no hatching going on at that point at all. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Aug 17 2006, 02:54 PM	#12
Greenrider Tresa The Contrary Planetary Brain Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Northern Indiana Fan of: The Ship Who Searched Now Reading: The Calhoun Collection, Nora Roberts	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! That's certainly...colorful. __________________ Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul! They are its actions, but they are not its essence. Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375) Egyptian King and Monotheist

Aug 19 2006, 03:54 AM	#13
edith Dragonrider Weyrwoman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delft Fan of: Most of them :) Now Reading: Don't You Have Time To Think- RP Feynman	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! hang on... rapp and whiting HB 1969 pg 89 Weyr search chapter with heading By the Golden Egg of Faranth... "It was over very soon. The young dragons paired off with boys. Green riders dropped down to carry off the unacceptable. Blue riders settled to the floor with their beasts and led the couples out of the cavern, the young dragons squealing, crooning, flapping wet wings as they staggered off, encouraged by their newly encouraged Weyrmates." Corgi edition reprinted 1981 pg 78 same chapter off course! It was over very soon. The young dragons paired off with boys. Green riders dropped down to carry off the unacceptable. Blue riders settled to the floor with their beasts squealing, crooning, flapping wet wings as they staggered off, encouraged by their newly encouraged Weyrmates." __________________ "Should a rocket explode upon starting, it is called a "hard start." " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic

Aug 19 2006, 04:46 AM	#14
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Pronouns: He/him Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! No my 1970 edition is without the relevant words. Interestingly, the 1970 version is printed by Hunt Barnard @ Aylesbury; the 1981 version is printed by Cox & Wyman @ Reading. So it wasn't re-typeset. Therefore they must have been working from the same data string, presumably owned and held by Transworld. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Aug 21 2006, 07:20 AM	#16
Cheryl Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Maryland, USA Pronouns: She/her Fan of: Pern! Now Reading: Relentless Moon by MRKowal	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! Ah yes Sandi, that's the well known true first US paperback edition, which was recalled (after many many were sold) and reissued fixed still marked as the first edition. I did that one as a Collecting Highlight a couple months ago, which has details on sorting out the misplaced block of text. __________________ Visit one of the other sites of Cheryl's Anne McCaffrey Triad: Sariel's Guide to Pern: a detailed guide to the series The Many Works of Anne McCaffrey: largest fan site about Anne and ALL of her works McCaffrey Quest: annual trivia contest.

Aug 21 2006, 10:02 AM	#17
Becky Coelura Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Washington Fan of: Fav character - Lunzie Now Reading: Love reading Lanen's books too	Re: 1970 Corgi pb of Dragonflight - cover artist discovered! When I read WD it was my first Anne experience and I loved it so, but boy did that error cause me confusion! I think I re-read that part 10 times to finally sort it out. It is surprising that they would sell so many and then fix and reissue as a first. Makes for fun collecting tho! Even if it was confusing to read before they fixed it. __________________ Becky aka Coelura1

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