Creator
Sample cover designs for paperback editions of novels by Ursula K. Le Guin:
Title
The Beginning Place.
Publisher
Bantam,
Date
1983 (artist unidentified).
Subject
With A Wizard of Earthsea (Bantam, 1984, art by Yvonne Gilbert).
Description
Bantam Books, founded in 1945, was one of the most successful paperback publishers in the United States. The firm invested a great deal of time in designing eye-catching pictorial covers. RBS recently acquired a small archive of promotional materials issued by Bantam in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including these two cover designs for novels by renowned speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin (1928–2018). Bantam distributed both covers among its account holders for marketing and publicity purposes, and to gain feedback on which designs would be more popular with readers.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School