William Hofmann

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William Hofmann illustrated books in the late 1950s and the 1960s.

[edit] Books

Cover of 1959 McGraw-Hill first edition hardback of Kings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins. Cover art by William Hofmann.

The works he illustrated include:

• The First Easter (1959) by Peter Marshall
• Five World Biographies (1961) edited by Leon Edel, Elizabeth S. White, Madolyn W. Brown
• The Blue of Capricorn (1962) by Eugene Burdick
• Indian Uprising, Houghton Mifflin (1962) by George Cory Franklin
• The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian (1962) by Walter O'Meara
• Hero of Trafalgar: the Story of Lord Nelson (1963) by A.B.C. Whipple
• Backtrack (western novel) (1965) by Milton Lott
• Time Was, Folkways Press (1965) by John Foster West
• Phaëthon (1966) by Merrill Pollack
• Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (1966) by Bernard Evslin

[edit] Dust Jackets

Cover of the Random House 1965 hardback first edition of The Mountbattens, by Alden Hatch. Cover art by William Hofmann.

Cover of the 1965 Houghton Mifflin version Backtrack (western novel) by Milton Lott.

Cover of the Hodder and Stoughton 1966 hardback first edition of Avalon, by Anya Seton. Cover art by William Hofmann.

Cover of 1966 Houghton Mifflin version of Jubilee by Margaret Walker. Cover art by William Hofmann.

Cover of 1966 Houghton Mifflin version of A Tract of Time by Smith Hempstone. Cover art by William Hofmann.

Cover of the 1969 Houghton Mifflin hardcover edition of Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. Cover art by William Hofmann.

Cover of 1969 Holt, Rinehart and Winston edition of Operation Destruct. Dust jacket by William Hofmann.

Cover of the 1969 Dell paperback version of Logan's Run. Cover art by William Hofmann.

He also illustrated the dust jackets of:

• Kings Will Be Tyrants (1959) by Ward Hawkins
• The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian (1962) by Walter O'Meara
• Backtrack (1965), by Milton Lott
• The Mountbattens - The Last Royal Success Story, Random House (1965) by Alden Hatch
• Avalon, Hodder and Stoughton (1966) by Anya Seton
• World in a Glass - A View of Our Century From the Novels of John Dos Passos, Houghton Mifflin (1966) by John Dos Passos
• A Tract of Time (1966) by Smith Hempstone
• Jubilee (1966) by Margaret Walker
• Earth Abides (1969) by George R. Stewart
• Operation Destruct, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1969) by Christopher Nicole
• Logan's Run, Dell paperback (1969) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

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