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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:58:16 -0600
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:46:39 -0500, Lee Gleason
<lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote:

>On 6/23/2024 7:55 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <robertaw-7448D9.21544222062024@news.individual.net>,
>> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>>> In article <YIEdO.9438$zMs3.1124@fx48.iad>,
>>> Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>     It the late 70s, early 80s, there was an SF paperback published that
>>>> mistakenly  used the cover art intended for a different novel from the
>>>> same publisher. Does anyone recall the name of the book? It was pretty
>>>> widely discussed at the time.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Publishers have used inappropriate cover art that they had on hand for
>>> decades. It is possible that you are referring to the first edition of
>>> Lawrence Watt-Evans's _The Unwilling Warlord_ (1989) that used Darrell
>>> Sweet art that was originally done for a Lloyd Arthur Eshbach title
>>> (IIRC, _The Scroll of Lucifer_, released in 1990). This is later than
>>> you specified.
>> 
>> I wonder if Lee is not referring to a famous story about Jack Vance
>> complaining about his book cover. This inspired, iirc, an artist to
>> take special care with the cover he was working on for a non-Vance
>> book. The result was so good the published decided it was perfect
>> to replace the cover Jack Vance was bitching about.
>> 
>> I think the Vance was Araminta Station.
>> 
> >
>   These sound interesting, but not what I was looking for. I dimly 
>recall that one of the covers had a woman on it, holding a small 
>creature like it was a baby. The book it was affixed to had nothing to 
>do with that, but another book from the same publisher around the same 
>time had a plot it fit perfectly.

This piqued my curiosity enough to lead me to attempt a Google search.

I found an interesting page not directly related to your query:

https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2011/12/25/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-reusing-cover-art/

John Savard