The great Ralph McQuarrie created most of the paintings used in this book, and while the majority of them were pre-production concept paintings used to visualize scenes for the original trilogy films, there's quite a few original pieces that he painted specifically for this book. So this review is quite inaccurate when it states "there's really nothing much new here except for the writeup." There are, in fact, dozens of original sketches, color studies and full paintings that are not included in any of the "art of..." Star Wars books, and therefore this is especially of interest to anyone who appreciates McQuarrie's Star Wars art.