Cover of Shrine of the Desert Mage

by Richard Bober

A man with a round shield fends off a winged creature swooping through an ornate, lamp-lit palace hall, below a blank scroll left for the title. Bober painted it as the cover of Stephen Goldin's Shrine of the Desert Mage (Bantam, 1988).

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