The Million Cities

Publisher: Pyramid Books.
Author: J. T. McIntosh.
Publication date: August 1963.
Page count: 141.
Original price: $0.40.
Binding: paperback.
Type: novel.

Front of paperback

Unused sketch

Cover illustration by Virgil Finlay. The sketch titled 'The Million Cities' remained unused. It is a watercolor, size 11 by 8.5 inches. Virgil Finlay's address is in the lower-right corner. The text under the sketch reads 'Reference here is to the extraterrestrial creatures who, as a group, govern space travel.' The sketch is not signed, nor dated.

Reference
The sketch is from the collection of Yutaka Morita and displayed at The Illustrator Exchange.