Alfred Duggan wrote a variety of historical novels in the 1950's and 60's. I picked up this copy of his Conscience of the King (about Cerdic) and I will admit that, although I have an interest in the subject after reading Joan Wolf's Born of the Sun, I really bought this for the cover (from 1951). Isn't it something?!!
So, I decided to see what else was out there. Although many of his books were recently republished with some very nice looking covers, I found quite a variety of funny, weird and ugly ones:
The Little Emperors (coups in late Roman-Britain)
The Lady For Ransom (11th Century Byzantine Empire)
Leopards and Lilies (set during reign of King John)
The Cunning of the Dove (Edward the Confessor)
Children of the Wolf (Romulus and the Founding of Rome a/k/a Founding Fathers)
The King of Athelney (Alfred the Great a/k/a The Right Line of Cerdic)
2 comments:
Wow! These are some crazy covers. My favorite would be the first one, because what kind of conscience does the King have if he is carrying a woman?
Gotta love vintage :)
Oh my. He has not had the best of luck with covers has he? Granted they're vintage, but not the kind of vintage that comes back in style! Great finds!
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