The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
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Hardback edition by Science Fiction Book Club, March 1970, with the authorized text restoring editorial changes made to the text of Avon’s paperback edition. [More info on ISFDB]
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World is a collection of fifteen short stories by Harlan Ellison (1934–2018), first published by Avon Books in paperback in July 1969. A hardback edition followed ten months later, by the Science Fiction Book Club. The titular story won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The last story, “A Boy and His Dog”, is among Ellison’s most famous ones, and was adapted into a film of the same name.
The cover design by Leo and Diane Dillon uses lettering, not type. It does qualify for Fonts In Use, though: the letterforms are clearly patterned after a typeface, namely Davison Art Nouveau, a.k.a. the Dune font. This is evident in hallmark glyphs like the O with the internal swash terminal, or the R that curls inside the counter. The accompanying sans on the paperback edition is Helvetica Condensed.
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Avon paperback edition, July 1969 [More info on ISFDB]
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Back cover of Avon’s paperback edition
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