Berkey’s Romance Art
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The Avenue Goes to War – 1975
BELOW: The front cover by itself (with Berkey’s signature underlined in red) — it took me over 2 years to locate a copy of this one!
BELOW: The full wrap around cover — “as is” — and then after being cleaned up with Photoshop:
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The 1977 Strathmore Pocketbook
(The above two books were located & acquired in Nov/Dec 2011)
The PRELIM for Strathmore:
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1974 – Post of Honor
1970 – God is an Englishman
1971 – Long Summer Day
1973 – The Green Gauntlet
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A Mystery….
BELOW: The 1970 DREAMING SUBURB — is this a Berkey?? It’s NOT on the Jane Frank Checklist, but it sure looks like a Berkey… but the inside credits say that this cover is by “Ann Meisel”…
THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED!!!
The “BERK” of BERKEY’s signature is faintly visable in the grass to the right of the dog!!! It was so faded that it couldn’t be seen with the naked eye, I had to use a magnifying glass!
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The Lives and Times of Bernardo Brown – 1973
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1971 – You Rolling River
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The Night We Buried Road Dog
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1973’s wrap around cover for THE UPSTART
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Berkey’s wrap-around cover for Miracle Play
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1971 – The Laurels are Cut Down
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Berkey’s cover for 1973 ALEXANDER’S FEAST:
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A VERY LUCKY FIND:
Our local library was having a book sale and I found this 1971 Berkey cover on PENMARRIC (which was not on any checklist nor posted on any other Berkey website)…
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Winesburg, Ohio – 1979
Berkey did 6 gorgeous interior illustrations for this hardcover special edition:
