Saturday, February 4, 2023

COVER UPDATES: EDGAR CAYCE ON ATLANTIS


Today we've got a terrific triple feature of cover updates for the very silly Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, by Edgar Evans Cayce! It must have been a hot seller because reprints and multiple editions abound. Up first is this very cool 1968 edition from Warner Books ... dig the slick graphic presentation of Egyptian/Mayan brotherhood, just a taste of some of the lost civilization themes inside.


Next we have the sixth printing from the Paperback Library, from 1969. We get some cool watery ruins and a stock shot of the man himself looking thoughtfully psychedelic, as he did on so many Paperback Library titles.


Last and definitely least, here's a very plain, disappointing tenth printing from the Paperback Library, from 1971! I can see this copy languishing on a grocery store spinner rack, counting on some bored housewife to shrug and toss it in the cart on her way to checkout. It was long ago and far away ...

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