Peggy and Michael of the Coffee Plantation If there is something I am missing from this list, please e-mail meĪnna Andrews - PEGGY LEE (Cupples & Leon) I have come across in my research, noted with an asterisk. I have added some things to this list that Yellowback Library in 1985, compiled by researcher, Geoffrey S.
Tandy's series book illustrations-dust jacket covers and internal illustrations-originally printed in Were donated by fellow Sleuth Rick Sayers):Ī sample of a non-Nancy Drew® glossy frontispiece: Some other samples of his series book artwork include the following(The Wind's in the He won the contest for his artwork, The Ruffian.
He alsoĭrew some of the illustrations for Butterick Patterns and designed the logo for the Jansen swimwear line.Ī drinking companion of Ernest Hemmingway and Salvador Dali, he also competed in aĬontest with Dali, Norman Rockwell, and otherĬontemporaries. Some of Russell's Nancy Drew® book internal glossy frontispiece illustrations:Īside from children's book covers and internal illustrations, Russell worked for department stores as a fashion illustrator. Nancy Drew® book, The Secret of the Old Clock, shown at right. If you'll notice at left, Kate highly resembles Nancy Drew® from the cover of the first
Kate Martin's Problem, was part of the Books for Girls series by May Hollis Barton which Kate Martin was just an individual character and did not surface in any series of books. Grosset & Dunlap chose Russell as the illustrator for theĬhoice indeed, for it was Russell's classic and sophisticated portrayal of Nancy that helped make the series sell quite successfully. Submitted the cover illustration of two artists to Grosset & Dunlap: Ernest Townsend's dust jacket art for Two Girls and a Mystery, The planning of his soon to be published Nancy Drew® series, who Russell was a friend of Edward Stratemeyer and had been illustrating some of the books for Edward's Books for Girls series. Updated the hairstyles, clothing, and accessories in the scenes and resulted in entirely new scenes for several frontispieces. The frontispieces of the first 17 volumes which were used in printings of these volumes from about 1943 onward. When the publishers switched from aįrontispiece to plain paper frontispieces circa 1941, beginning with The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, Russell also revised Original art dust jackets for volumes 1-10, 12-26 as well as the internal illustrations for volumes 1-26. Click on the images to enlarge them for reading.Ģ5 of the original Nancy Drew® books were illustrated by commercial illustrator, Russell H. Included here at the beginning are the pages of the article as reprinted in the May/June 2012 issue of The Sleuth. Lapin who interviewed members of Tandy's family. Information on this page derived in part from an article published in the March/April 1984 issue - volume 20 - of Yellowback Library and written and researched by Geoffrey S.
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