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His most famous novels were the dray prescot series, which he wrote as alan burt akers some were even credited to dray prescot. Click here to add the option to convert your choice of cover to a print ready paperback. Hoping to find the latest dray prescot book, and i was frequently rewarded. It is the fourteenth book in his extensive dray prescot series of sword and. Each cover design is original, only sold to one author, so its a.
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See more ideas about john carter of mars, fantasy book covers and sci fi books. This listing is for an lot of 30 1980s dray prescott alan burt akers book lot 124, 27, 29, 30 daw. Being the story of the great civil war from the election of abraham lincoln to the surrender at appomatox, impartially told altemus young peoples library by prescott holmes and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Although the exploits of dray prescot shouldve been right up my alley when they were new on bookstore shelves i avoided them like bubonic plague because of the weak cover artas much a deterrent to me then as those awful early gor covers until someone in ballantines art department had sense enough to assign the job to gino dachille, who. Book cover artwork is ed by its respective artist andor publisher. Join facebook to connect with gray prescott and others you may know. The suns of scorpio, warrior of scorpio, and several more. Kenneth bulmer saga of dray prescot of antares spanned 37 books between. Premade book cover galery professional premade book. Then be happy to know there are another fifty books after that.
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The sequence is made up of eleven cycles of novels, each cycle essentially forming a series. The series was originally published by daw between 1972 and 1988, and thats how i remember it. I have read most of the american dray prescot series published by daw. Ken wrote both under his own name and under at least 22 pseudonyms.
Sadly by the end of book four, virility gene, ryder hook had turned out to be a bit of a selfcongratulatory nob, even to a gormless and largely uncritical thirteen year old. Alan burt akers was a pen name of the prolific british author kenneth bulmer, who died in december 2005 aged eightyfour. If you want to purchase the covers for future use this is completely acceptable. On the planet kregen that circles antares, the brightest star of the constellation of the scorpion, two forces contend for the worlds destiny. Our premade covers are less expensive than custom made ones, but the quality is just as high. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. Even by nels admittedly unambitious standards the artwork is pretty dire.
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