I’ve not read this story, but the interior illustration for “When the Dream Dies (What of the Dreamer?)” (alternately and subsequently entitled as “When the Dream Dies”, and, “Rendezvous on a Lost World”) is a fine example of Virgil Finlay’s single-page work for digest size pulps. Though not as visually bold as his two-page work for such publications as Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories (among others!), his composition is similar to those works in having the same qualities of symbolism, myth, and, an idealized human form.
Here, the cover image is a scan of my own copy, while the illustration from page 57 was downloaded from the Pulp Magazine Archive because the extreme tightness of the magazine’s binding prevented effective and safe scanning. Then, it was digitally edited.
Illustration by Virgil W. Finlay for “When the Dream Dies (What of the Dreamer?)” by A. Bertram Chandler
(…page 57…)
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