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Dray Prescot series, Delian Cycle by Alan Burt Akers, Orbit

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jul 20th, 2024. Artwork published in .
Transit to Scorpio, Nov. 1974 [More info on ISFDB]
Source: postmarkedfromthestars.com Postmarked from the Stars (edited). License: All Rights Reserved.

From Wikipedia:

The Dray Prescot series is a sequence of fifty-two science fiction novels and a number of associated short stories of the subgenre generally classified as sword and planet, written by British author Kenneth Bulmer under the pseudonym of Alan Burt Akers.

The first four books in the first subseries – also known as the Delian Cycle – were published in the U.K. by Orbit Books, with cover art by Chris Achilléos. Titles and author name are set in a phototype version of Gothic Bold, originally a wood typeface first shown in 1889.

Or maybe it’s two different phototype versions? If you look closely, you can see that the letter W on the third cover looks different from the one on the fourth. The heavy variant in “Warrior” matches Skidoo Caps, a variant shown by Lettergraphics in 1968. The W in “Swordships” is the one found in the Headliners version named MP 334, which stays closer to the original.

The Suns of Scorpio, 1974 [More info on ISFDB]
Source: www.abebooks.com John Thompson. License: All Rights Reserved.
Warrior of Scorpio, Feb. 1975 [More info on ISFDB]
Source: www.abebooks.com John Thompson. License: All Rights Reserved.
Swordships of Scorpio, May 1975 [More info on ISFDB]
Source: www.abebooks.com John Thompson. License: All Rights Reserved.

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