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Mark Reinsberg
The pictured 1953 Shasta first-edition jacket is credited in bibliographic sources to Martin Herbstman, not Mark Reinsberg.
Full reasoning
The article’s infobox identifies the cover artist for the pictured first edition as Mark Reinsberg, but multiple bibliographic sources for the 1953 Shasta hardcover credit Martin Herbstman instead.
- The SF Encyclopedia picture gallery caption for the 1953 Shasta edition reads: “The Demolished Man (Chicago, Illinois: Shasta Publishers, 1953) … [hb/Martin Herbstman]”.
- A first-edition identification guide for Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man describes the genuine 1953 Shasta first as having a “priced dust jacket with art by Martin Herbstman.”
Because the infobox image is the first-edition jacket/cover, attributing that cover to Mark Reinsberg appears to be a misattribution. Reinsberg was associated with Shasta Publishers and also reviewed the novel in Imagination, which may be the source of the confusion, but the first-edition cover itself is credited to Martin Herbstman in the sources above.
2 sources
- SFE: SF Encyclopedia Picture Gallery
Alfred Bester. The Demolished Man (Chicago, Illinois: Shasta Publishers, 1953) [first appeared January-March 1952 Galaxy: hb/Martin Herbstman]
- Is My Alfred Bester Book a First Edition? - Points of Issue
The Demolished Man - 1953 · Shasta Publishers ... 250 pp; priced dust jacket with art by Martin Herbstman; printed by H. Wolff.