Artwork by M. S. Corley
I was so sure this edition of the Chronicles was real! That is, they were once for sale in a bookstore and over the decades eventually scanned and uploaded to the internet.
Alas, they are not. These designs are the work of graphic artist M. S. Corley and were created in 2009, a date decades past the 1960s-70s style they’re a magnificent pastiche of. And by golly I do mean magnificent: the artist has managed to capture everything dull and unappealing about book design of that era yet made them work. They’re both low budget and highbrow, like the cheap, utilitarian classic lit paperbacks intended for college students to read in English Lit, available in the campus bookstore for a buck or two. In 1971 that is.
