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Earl Mayan - Epitaph for a Spy 1953 cover

Artist: Earl Mayan (Painter)

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Earl Mayan - Epitaph for a Spy 1953 cover Comic Art

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Title:	Earl Mayan - Epitaph for a Spy 1953 cover
Artist:	Earl Mayan (Painter)
Media Type:	Paint - Acrylic
Art Type:	Cover
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Views:	2,715
Likes on CAF:	9 10
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	10/10/2016
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See Additional Images. Note hidden art found below art. If you have any knowledge, feel free to share. Looks like the artist painted over an earlier painting. Bikini babes at the beach from what I can tell. Love the new painting, but a shame to go over the other one.

"Epitaph for a Spy" by Eric Ambler. It was originally published in the 1930's , and reportedly reprinted as recently as 2002, but the 1953 edition, for which this art was used, was published by "Pennant Books."

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Rub�n DaCollector's Paperback Art
Member Since 2005

Posted on 2/26/2018

This is an Earl Mayan cover. Such a bloody shame about the condition, for obvious reasons, but perhaps doubly so given that Mayan covers so rarely turn up.

George Hagenauer
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 5/25/2020

I own a lot of his reader's digest true crime art but have never seen a paperback cover before

F. Artlock
Member Since 2019

Posted on 2/7/2021

beautiful work on light and shadow play

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