On Sunday, May 13, 2018 at 9:44:52 AM UTC-4, Magewolf wrote:
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> Seeing the original cover for Dragonsbane reused, for at least the tenth
> time, on that page reminds me of a question I have whenever various book
> covers get brought up. Which piece of art has been used as a cover
> image for the most different books? Not counting clip-art, maybe. But
> I do not have the slightest idea how you would go about finding out.
It depends on how you define "different books". For example, Lee Gibbons'
"The Shadow Rising" has been used by almost 20 differently titled books,
but they are all volumes in "The Wheel of Time" series and various
translations thereof -- see
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?851385
(scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to see the cover scans.)
Then there are "series covers" which were reused by multiple books in
the same series, e.g.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1875586
or
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2013849
And then there are oddball cases like this Jim Burns cover --
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/e/ef/HNSCNCFCTN1981.jpg . The left part,
the center part and the right part have been used separately on a number
of different books -- see
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1271575