Original Magazine Book Illustration Art The Nevermore Affair by Kate Wilhelm Sci Fi Signed Jack Pierce

Original vintage art - paste up rendered with Pen and Ink on Illustration Board – from 1966 timeframe when the book was published -  - this seems like it could be a magazine art illustration, not sure.

NOTE:  on this one, the Image was cut and pasted onto this paste-up board, so I am not positive that it is an original drawing or a reproduction of the original sketch - I am not an expert and it is not clear to me, please review the photos - I can see small dots in the background . . . not sure how this was created

Author Kate Wilhelm . . . one of the 20^th century’s finest Science Fiction writers.

Signed “Jack P.” for Jack Pierce . . . marked as the “Conclusion” image

The entire board measures 10 1/4 ” x 11” and the image itself measures  3” x 8”

This was the author's third (second solo) novel.

I could not find any information about the illustrator, Jack Pierce (I got this with several other pieces by him)

Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018) Working name of the US writer Katie Gertrude Meridith Wilhelm Knight, born in Ohio in 1928. She started publishing SF in 1956 with 'The Pint-Sized Genie' for Fantastic, and continued for some time with relatively straightforward genre stories; it was not until the late 1960s that she began to release the mature stories which have made her reputation as one of the 20th century's finest SF writers.

She was married to noted author and critic Damon Knight and together they have had a profound influence beyond their writing, through the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference and its offshoot, in which she was directly involved, the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, and has won the Nebula Award three times. Kate Wilhelm died in 2018, aged 89.

I could not independently identify that this illustration was used in the book or a magazine, as I do not have the book and I was not able to find the illustrations online . . .

Condition:     Very Good  . . . normal minor wear

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