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The Week-End Book was a popular compendium of advice as to how to spend a weekend and contained a wide range of information, pastimes and stories. First published in the 1920s by the Nonsuch Press and edited by the redoubtable Francis Meynell along with Vera Mendel it went through various guises and editions, with one being issued quite recently. This 1954 edition uses the 1920s cover design by MacDonald Gill, better known as Max, the brother of the more well-known Eric Gill (he of the typeface Gill Sans). Max was an accomplished artist and designer especially of decorative maps, and this cover is very typical of his style. Max had died in 1947 and so this version was issued posthumously.
The Voyage of the Waltzing Matilda by Philip Davenport 1953.
The newly-wed Philip and Roz Davenport, sailed around a major part of the World in a small 46’ Bermudian Cutter with a 53’ mast, leaving Sydney Harbour on October 1950. The cutter had just been constructed in Tasmania for the three adventurous Sydney brothers: Jack, Philip and Keith Davenport, who had all seen service as bomber pilots during World War 2 with the Royal Australian Air Force. Accompanying the 32 year-old Philip, and his wife Roz, was his brother, Keith and a sailing friend, Don Brown.
The Waltzing Matilda, named after a popular Australian folk song, visited New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil along the way before finishing in London in late 1951.
Published by Hutchison of London. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 232 pages 14cm x 22cm.
trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18517571 Roz Davenport’s interview about the journey from the (Sydney) Sunday Herald 30th November 1952.
Philip Davenport’s account of his crash, capture and incarceration in a Gestapo prison in Norway in 1945:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/51/a3964151.s...
The middle brother, Wing-Commander Jack Davenport, who helped fund and prepare the Waltzing Matilda, had a distinguished Air Force career, and won the DSO for his command of 455 Squadron (Bomber Command).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._455_Squadron_RAAF
and:
www.amazon.com/Jack-Davenport-ebook/dp/B0042JSPOI This biography of Jack Davenport, also includes some details of the Air Force action of his brothers Philip and Keith.
Jack followed the military career with an equally distinguished business career, including directorship of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL Co).
From Mathematical Models, 2nd Edn, by H. M. Cundy and A.P. Rollett, Oxford University Press, 1951.
Any notations are by my father, as he worked out measurements to build models.
Post is here: blog.ounodesign.com/2009/04/29/stellated-polyhedra-mathem...
Twenty-three stories of the strange and terrible edited by August Derleth. The authors include Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Ray Bradbury, Walter de la Mare, Nelson Bond, and others.
"There had been no warning. The space ships of the Overlords had appeared suddenly above every major city of the earth. It was only a very small operation from their point of view, but to Earth it was the biggest thing that had ever happened...
... The international armaments race stopped immediately.
... Within fifty years, ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear were to be virtually eliminated.
... It was to be One World.
But how could the men and women of Earth have foreseen that theirs was the last generation of mankind?"
[Quote from the front flap of the dust jacket]
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) was best known as the author of the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely considered to be among the classics of the genre. [Source: Wikipedia]
This book from The Viking Press is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.
George R. Stewart - Storm
Bantam Books 155, 1948
Cover Artist: Denver Gillen
Issued in 1944 by Infantry Journal/Penguin Books. It was reissued in 1948 by Bantam with a dust jacket over the original book when Ian Ballantine left Penguin to form Bantam Books
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
"Jacket illustration courtesy of Lear, Inc., Santa Monica, Calif."
The book presents the best information, ideas and assumptions on the conquest of the moon as of 1958. The authors, who were experts on missiles and space flight, tell how the moon would be approached, first with instrumented probes and then with man himself as a payload. Fascinating conjectures, based on the latest scientific findings, show what life on the moon might be like, how men would build a base there, how they would explore the moon, and how they would push on from there to further explorations of outer space.
This is pure pulp from the golden age of pulp fiction, Flash flies to another planet , rescues a princess from the horrible, devouring octopus-things that surround her kingdom, enlists her aid and returns to destroy the monstrous cavern men overrunning Mongo. Flash, his sweetheart Dale Arden and the scientist Dr. Zarkov, the only earthlings on the planet, who, with Vultan's bravest nobleman, descend deep into the heart of Mongo.
Deep in the core of the planet lives a race who have been sealed in their dark caverns for centuries. Tirelessly they work to break through the upper crust of Mongo to destroy King Vultan and his people. And they would have succeeded but for ...
Dust jacket cover of the "Mountain Pony and the Rodeo Mystery," by Henry V. Larom, illustrated by Ross Santee.
Grosset and Dunlap, New York; 1949. This edition (which has the brown tweed cover with the embossed horseshoe on the cover) was issued by McGraw Hill, but has no publication date.
A misfit and bullied high school girl, Carrie White, uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her. She gets pushed to the limit on the night of her school's prom by a humiliating prank.
Carrie's revenge (1976):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiPw2v02nE4
Carrie's revenge (2013):
"Dune Messiah" carries on the monumental story begun in "Dune," which won Nebula and Hugo awards. A holy war fought in space and on a thousand planets had made Paul Atreides the religious and political leader of the Galaxy. The product of generations of controlled breeding, trained in arcane disciplines by the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, he had more than human powers, including the ability to sense the shape of the future.
Then the Bene Gesserit, unable to dominate the man they had made a god, set out to overthrow him. But Paul Atreides could foresee their plans and shape them to an unexpected and shocking goal...
A collection of 17 short stories.
"R Is for Rocket"
"The End of the Beginning"
"The Fog Horn"
"The Rocket"
"The Rocket Man"
"The Golden Apples of the Sun"
"A Sound of Thunder"
"The Long Rain"
"The Exiles"
"Here There Be Tygers"
"The Strawberry Window"
"The Dragon"
"The Gift"
"Frost and Fire"
"Uncle Einar"
"The Time Machine"
"The Sound of Summer Running"
"The Haunted Looking Glass" contains a dozen ghost stories compiled and edited by Edward Gorey, who also prefaces each story with a wonderfully creepy drawing. The stories are:
"The Empty House" by Algernon Blackwood.
"August Heat" by W. F. Harvey.
"The Signalman" by Charles Dickens.
"A Visitor from Down Under" by L. P. Hartley.
"The Thirteenth Tree" by R. H. Malden.
"The Body-Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
"Man-Size in Marble" by E. Nesbit.
"The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker.
"The Shadow of a Shade" by Tom Hood.
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs.
"The Dream Woman" by Wilkie Collins.
"Casting the Runes" by M. R. James.
Edward Gorey's illustrated (and sometimes wordless) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following. Gorey became particularly well-known through his animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! in 1980, as well as his designs for the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design. He also was nominated for Best Scenic Design. In the introduction of each episode of Mystery!, Vincent Price would welcome viewers to "Gorey Mansion".
1947; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. with dust Jacket by Ben Stahl, The original front cover is by Lester Kohs www.flickr.com/photos/42080330@N03/3882180950/
--Updated with new scan, August 4 2020--
Cover to Super Turtles #1, published in Japan by Dengeki Comics in 1995. This issue gives the backstory to how the TMNT acquired the Mutastones which were seen in that kooky TMNT anime episode released in Japan. It features story and artwork by Hidemaki Idemitsu. The credits page dates this publication as August 15, 1995.
Check out the English fan-translation project of this issue, courtesy of TMNTEntity and Optical Internet Translation Gang:
tmntentity.blogspot.com/2009/05/tmnt-manga.html.
Also, see a Dengeki advertisement flyer for this volume here:
In the distant future, a strange plan for civilization is being followed by man. Two different planets are involved, two separate worlds in space -- and yet they are joined , though only by a mysterious pathway whose secret very few know.
The story centers around Ketan in the strange, isolated world of Kronweld. He is a Seeker, defying law and tradition to search into forbidden knowledge. It is he who challenges the unquestioned rule of a mighty machine which forms the community mind of Kronweld. And there is his companion, Elta, both friend and enemy, who also is seeking some unknown goal.
What Ketan does to solve the Mystery of the Origin of Life and his penetration into the Temple of Birth brings him into contact with the other world. With determination he penetrates the infinite curtain which so weirdly surrounds his city. And from then on, uncovering fact after fact, he slowly discovers the monstrous secret of two human worlds.
This was the very first science fiction novel I read and I was intrigued by the idea of having extra bodies that are activated when you die. Die on one planet and awaken on another, It was a good read and I was hooked from the start. Since then, stories by A.E. Van Vogt have remained high on my reading list.
1952; Dutch Hardcover 'Moordkroeg Chicago' [ The Fabulous Clippoint ] by Fredric Brown. The dustjacket is a Twin of a Bantam paperback
Olaf Wieghorst (1899-1988), born and raised in Denmark, was a painter of the American West in the vein of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. I first saw his artwork in the opening credits of the 1967 motion picture “El Dorado” starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. I viewed a fully-restored version of the film on Blu-Ray and Olaf’s paintings served as backdrops during the credits. George Alexander sings the haunting “El Dorado” theme song by Nelson Riddle and John Gabriel. The paintings and the song are the best two minutes in the movie. For a low-quality version of the opening credits (which should actually be seen in HD to do justice to the paintings), check out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihn6FuFWZg
The fifteen paintings in El Dorado’s opening credits are also on display at this website:
Joe Servello's art is reminiscent of a classic paperback book cover:
www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/12331859333/in/album-7...
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
Title: Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar - vol 2;
Author: Peter V. Bruyns;
Publisher: Umdaus Press, Hatfield, South Africa;
Edition: first (2005)
Pages: IV + 331÷606 (color);
Cover: hardcover in dustjacket;
Language: English;
Dimensions: 23,7 x 30,3 cm;
ISBN: 1-919766-38-3 (standard edition)
The book contains seven tales of science fiction, including the title story – a classic of science fiction – about a lonely, isolated station in the Antarctic where “The Thing from Another World” is discovered frozen in the ice. Terror ensues when this shape shifting “thing” is defrosted. A motion picture based on this terrifying tale was released in 1951, which led to this second printing of Campbell’s book. The first printing in 1948 had a different dust jacket:
www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/15160990520/in/set-721...
Dust jacket, direct scan, from "The Guide to Garden Flowers by Norman Taylor, Houghton Mifflon Company, NY
A new Crusoe story featuring 21 full page scenes from the 1924 American silent film starring Jackie Coogan, directed by Edward F. Cline, and written by Willard Mack.
Mickey Hogan (Jackie Coogan) is an orphan cabin boy on a ship commanded by a cruel captain (Tom Santschi). His only friend is a black cat, called Man Friday. A storm shipwrecks Mickey on an island, where he’s made into a captive war god. The next island is run by a white man Adolphe Schmidt (Bert Sprotte), who lives there with his daughter Gretta (Gloria Grey).
Jackie Coogan was the first major Hollywood child star and was phenomenally popular during the silent film era, achieving international fame and becoming a multi-millionaire by the age of ten. He is best known for his iconic role as the waif in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film “The Kid.”
Kepes, G. (ed.), The Nature and Art of Motion, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965
Essays by: James S. Ackerman, Donald Appleyard, Gillo Dorfles, Karl Gerstner, Robert Gessner, James J. Gibson, Stanley W. Hayter, Gerald Holton, Katharine Kuh, Hands Richter, George Rickey, Hans Wallach, Gordon B. Washburn
“Savage Pellucidar” is the sixth book in the Pellucidar series. It consists of four short inter-linked stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote in the 1940s. Three of these stories were published in the magazine Amazing Stories in 1942. The fourth story, “Savage Pellucidar,” didn’t get published until Amazing Stories published the entire series in 1963. The series also appeared in book form for the first time when Canaveral Press published it in November 1963. The four stories that make up the series are:
"The Return To Pellucidar" (Amazing Stories magazine, February 1942)
"Men Of The Bronze Age" (Amazing Stories magazine, March 1942)
"Tiger-Girl" (Amazing Stories magazine, April 1942)
"Savage Pellucidar" (Amazing Stories magazine, November 1963)
Direct scan of the cover, with flaws, of the dust jacket of a hard cover copy of the "Green Fairy Book," edited by Andrew Lang.
This is the book that introduced readers to Norman Bates, his knife-wielding Mother and a horrifying shower scene at the Bates Motel. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of the same name. Here is Hitchcock's take on that infamous shower scene:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4
The Gauntlet Press published a 35th anniversary edition of the novel with Mother’s portrait on the cover:
www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/16417285069/in/album-7...
Another Australian writer whose works are now hard to find.
ill met by a fish shop on george street (1969 first UK edition, Hodder and Stoughton, jacket art by Ellen Raskin)
Night's Evil (1966 first US edition, Doubleday, jacket art by Larry Lurin)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1970 Horwitz paperback edition)
Printed by the Windmill Press this is reproduced from a scraperboard design and is typical of the work of C W Bacon, the designer.
This fourth book in the Dune series takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy (Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune). It tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, savior of the planet Dune. Leto still lives but is no longer human. He has traded his humanity for virtual immortality by undergoing what will soon be a total transformation into the magnificent and enormous sandworm of Dune. He must live, for without his guidance the human race will surely go astray. Will his awesome sacrifice have been in vain?