(Above) Jungle Doctor's Case Book by Paul White (1967)
The clear and quirky design & illustration of this cover first attracted me. I expected the contents to be quaint tales of medical missions, which they are. The heavy handed preaching that sets in and clobbers the life out of the stories is tedious however. So, enjoy the cover.
"What he calls fun other people call DANGER"
The inside flap of the dust jacket also proclaims:
"The boy who doesn't know David FLAME is like the boy who doesn't know 'BIGGLES'"
...which is probably true.
(Above) Tarzan and The Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1918)
Surely, Tarzan's dust jacket artwork and design (above) is unlikely to have been concurrent with the printing of the book itself, in this case 1918. The typeface and amount of bare skin seems anachronistic, wouldn't you say?
The story itself is now culturally bizarre. Tarzan gratuitously kills 3 lions within the first half of the book and other animals are lucky to escape him. Our attitudes towards nature have evolved. The author's continual and breathless adulation of this man-lord-beast-savage - "a majestic man, a noble beast" - is also a strange testament to ideas of machismo.
But I like the covers. Enjoy!
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