3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp
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From Wikipedia:
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories, edited by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp. […] The book collects eleven tales by various authors, with a foreword by Isaac Asimov and an overall introduction by the de Camps.
The first-edition jacket by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard features works by two outstanding artists who have left us in recent years.
The illustration is by Emanuel “Manny” Schongut. Born in New York in 1936, Schongut studied at Pratt Institute, majoring in graphic arts and illustration. In the 1960s and 1970s, he worked as a freelance illustrator in New York City, designing book covers for publishers like Harper & Row, Doubleday, and Random House. You can learn more about him and his works in an interview conducted by Joachim Boaz in 2016. Emanuel Schongut died in December 2022.
The typeface is Fat Albert. The squarish sans – here seen in its Shadow style – is an early design by Ray Cruz. Born in 1943 in Puerto Rico, Cruz graduated from New York City’s High School of Art and Design and embarked on a long and fruitful career as lettering artist and type designer. Fat Albert was made around 1970 while working at John N. Schaedler. Like Schongut, he designed numerous book covers for publishing houses in New York, such as Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Schocken, and Delacorte Press. In 2004, he himself digitized all three styles of his Fat Albert for a re-release with Bitstream. Ray Cruz passed away in March 2025.
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