Dust Jacket Art may be by Paul Stahr.

From 1927 until the 1950's Grosset & Dunlap reprinted this title using a modified version of the original illustration by Fred J. Arting from a night-time black silhouette Tarzan to a daytime full-color Tarzan. Many Burroughs collectors believe the modification was done by G&D artist Paul Stahr.

Here is Arting's original illustration for the first edition:

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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.

Thirty-four of the best short stories by Damon Runyon, the Bard of Broadway, including six never-before published in book form. The book also includes “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” the original story that became Samuel Goldwyn’s 1955 movie musical “Guys and Dolls,” starring Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson, Jean Simmons as Sarah Brown, Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, and Vivian Blaine as Adelaide. The movie was also based in part on “Pick the Winner,” the chronicle of the long-distance romance of Nathan Detroit and his ever-loving fiancée.

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of a big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer famous for his stories about New York City's colorful characters, which often included gangsters, gamblers, and showgirls. He developed a unique narrative voice, blending slang with formal speech to create a vivid portrayal of the city's underworld. His most famous collection of short stories, “Guys and Dolls” (1931), inspired the famous 1950 Broadway musical of the same name (which played for 1200 performances), and the subsequent film. Runyon's literary legacy includes over 700 stories, plays, and poems, which have been adapted into films such as “Lady for a Day” (1933) and “The Lemon Drop Kid” (1934).

Gateway is a space station built into a hollow asteroid (or perhaps the dead heart of a comet) constructed by the Heechee, a long-vanished alien race. Humans have had limited success understanding Heechee technology found there and elsewhere in the solar system. The Gateway Corporation administers the asteroid on behalf of the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, New People's Asia, the Venusian Confederation, and the United States of Brazil.

Nearly a thousand small, abandoned starships are at Gateway. By extremely dangerous trial and error, humans learn how to operate the ships. The controls for selecting a destination have been identified, but nobody knows where a particular setting will take the ship or how long the trip will last; starvation is a danger. Attempts at reverse engineering to find out how they work have ended only in disaster, as has changing the settings in mid-flight. Most settings lead to useless or lethal places. A few, however, result in the discovery of Heechee artifacts and habitable planets, making the passengers (and the Gateway Corporation) wealthy. The vessels come in three standard sizes, which can hold a maximum of one, three, or five people, filled with equipment and hopefully enough food for the trip. Some "threes" and many "fives" are armored. Each ship includes a lander to visit a planet or other object if one is found. [Source: Wikipedia]

Christine is the story of a vintage 1958 Plymouth Fury that is possessed by supernatural forces. John Carpenter directed the film adaptation of King’s book:

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sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte.

edited by Bob Cobbing, Liesbeth Crommelin, Paul De Vree, Reinhard Dohl, & Hansjorg Mayer.

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, [early] 1971. issued as Catalogue 492.

8-3/16 x 1o-13/16, 166 sheets tan newsprint perfectbound in plain semigloss white wrappers in white bond dustjacket with 3-11/16" flaps, interiors all except 5pp printed black offset, dustjacket printed black letterpress recto only except rear flap with blue addition to covers.

cover by Hansjorg Mayer.

139 contributors ID'd:

Vincenzo Accame, Friedrich Achleitner, Karel Adamus, Annalisa Aloatti, Ronaldo Azeredo, Zdenek Barborka, Carlo Belloli, Max Bense, Mirella Bentivoglio, Julien Blaine, Jean-Francois Bory, Edgar Braga, Claus Bremer, Hart Broudy, Klaus Burckhardt, Ugo Carrega, Jose Castillejo, Mario Chamie, Henri Chopin, Carlfriedrich Claus, Hans Clavin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Liesbeth Crommelin, Herman Damen, Augusto De Campos, Haroldo De Campos, Ignazio Fomez De Liano, Paul De Vree, Herman De Vries, E.De Wilde, Francisco Jose De Zabala, Reinhard Dohl, Stanislaw Drozdz, Tom Edmonds, Amelia Etlinger, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Luigi Ferro, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Carl Fernbach Flarsheim, Yasuo Fujitomi, John Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse Garnier, Pierre Garnier, Jochen Gerz, Mathias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Jose Lino Grunewald, Milan Grygar, Ludwig Harig, Helmut Heissenbuttel, Juan Hidalgo, Josef Hirsal, Josef Honys, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Emilio Isgro, Yuaka Ishii, Ernst Jandl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Robert Joseph, Emil Julis, Kyuyo Kajino, Hiro Kamimura, Kitasono Katue, Miyo Kawashima, Jaroslav Koch, Jiri Kolar, Miroslav Korycan, Richard Kostelanetz, Ferdinand Kriwet, Liliane Landi, Arrigo Lora Totino, Walter Marchetti, Stelio Maria Martini, Hansjorg Mayer, Peter Mayer, Eugenio Miccini, Joe Michaud, Fernando Millan, Karel Milota, Alain Arias Misson, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Maarten Mourik, Maurizio Nannucci, Ladislav Nebesky, bpNichol, Hans Jorgen Nielsen, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novak, Nahl Nucha, Tom Ockerse, Eduard Ovcacek, Yuksel Pazarkaya, Luis Pazos, Michael J.Phillips, Decio Pignatari, Luis Angelo Pinto, Jindrich Prochazka, Carl Frederick Reutersward, Alan Riddell, Diter Rot, Gerhard Ruhm, Kurt Sanmark, Isaia Sarenco, Aram Saroyan, Konrad Balder Schauffelen, Wolfgang Schmidt, John Sharkey, Toshihiko Shimizu, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Daniel Spoerri, Vagn Steen, Shohachiro Takahshi, Stefan Themerson, Andre Thomkins, Karel Trinkewitz, Timm Ulrichs, Jiri Valoch, Frans Vanderlinden, J.J.Van Der Maas, Leon Van Essche, Edwin Varney, Franco Verdi, Charles Verey, Edgar Vigo, Ivo Vroom, Klaus Warmuth, Oswald Wiener, Emmett Williams, Jonathan Williams, Edward Wright, Pedro Xisto, Ryojiro Yamanaka, Syoji Yoshizawa, Franci Zagoricnik.

includes:

i) eyes (p.152; visual poetry in 6 parts:

--1. "N"

--2. "TTTTTIIITIIII"

--3. "AAAAAAA A"

--4. "A LINE A"

--5. "IIII II OOOO"

--6. "OOOOOO O")

also includes;

ii) Konkrete klankpoezie 1950-1970, by Bob Cobbing/translated by J.J.Van Der Maas (pp.25-34; prose essay, translation of (iii) below with quote by Nichol from "concrete can become as big a trap as anything unless one stays open" translated into Dutch)

iii) Concrete sound poetry 1950-1970, by Bob Cobbing (pp.25-33; prose essay with quote by Nichol from "concrete can become as big a trap as anything unless one stays open")

iv) Konkrete Lautdichtung 1950-1970, by Bob Cobbing/translated by J.J.Van Der Maas (pp.25-34; prose essay, translation of (iii) above with quote by Nichol from "concrete can become as big a trap as anything unless one stays open" translated into German)

v) Nichol bp Toronto, Canada, unacknowledged (p.186; bio, primarily a list of publications)

vi) Tijdschriften en periodieken Magazines and periodicals Zeitschriften und periodica, unacknowledged (pp.225-227; in 19 parts with Ganglia & grOnk listed in part 4, Canada Canada Kanada)

vii) Grammofoonplaten Records Schallplatten, unacknowledged (p.23o; discography includes Nichol's Motherlove)

edited by W.H.New.

Toronto, University Of Toronto Press, [summer?] 2oo2. ISBN o-8o2o-o761-9.

6-1/2 x 9-15/16, 344 sheets thin white wove folded & sewn pearl white in 11 doublestitches to 43 signatures of 8 sheets each & glued into plain slategreen heavy bond endpapers & 6-7/8 x 1o-1/4 black painted-cloth covered boards with 2-15/16" white head~ & tailbands, spine only printed redfoil letterpress, in white glossy dustjacket with 3-7/8" flaps printed black offset with red foil letterpress additions to all but rear flap, interiors all except 14 pp (ii, vi, xiv, xviii, xxiv, 1236, 1247, 1348, last 3 leaves) printed black offset

cover by John Beadle.

317 contributors ID'd:

John Adams, Marguerite Andersen, Jennifer Andrews, Anna Louise Atkinson, Peter Roman Babiak, Jars Balan, John Clement Ball, Carl P.Ballstadt, Caroline Barrett, Michael Batts, John Beadle, Bart Beaty, Julie Beddoes, Karin Beeler, Patricia L.Belier, Andy Belyea, Judith Berman, Neil Besner, Roberta J.Birks, Michel Biron, Dale Blake, Deborah Blenkhorn,, E.D.Blodgett, Joost Blom, Margaret H.Blom, Thomas E.Blom, Gary Boire, Christian Bök, Laurel Boone, George Bowering, Di Brandt, Robert Bringhurst, René Brisebois, Diana Brydon, Michael A.Bucknor, Jack M.Bumsted, Pauline Butling, Mervin Butovsky, Alison Calder, Warren Cariou, Carole Henderson Carpenter, Marie J.Carrière, Neil Carson, Richard Cavell, Greg Chan, Judy Chapman, Roger Clark, George Elliott Clarke, Lesley D.Clement, Donna Coates, Mark Cochrane, Daniel Coleman, Margaret Conrad, Margaret Coo, Margaret Cook, Nathalie Cooke, Dennis Cooley, Ann Cowan, Terrence Craig, Julie Cruickshank, Noel Elizabeth Currie, Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, Tamas Dabozy, Cecilia M.Danaher, Estelle Dansereau, Michael Darling, Frank Davey, Gwendolyn Davies, Richard A.Davies, Misao Dean, Glenn Deer, Dennis Denisoff, Frances Densmore, Grace De Sousa, Kenneth C.Dewar, Peter Dickinson, Charlene Diehl-Jones, Merrill Distad, Sandra Djwa, Deane E.D.Downey, James Doyle, Kegan Doyle, Margaret Doyle, Paul Dutton, Klay Dyer, Susanna Egan, Ray Ellenwood, Margery Fee, George Fetherling, Janice Fiamengo, Alan Filewood, Leonard M.Findlay, Howard R.Fink, Patricia Fleming, Jane Flick, Alexander M.Forbes, Graeme N.Forst, Louise H.Forsyth, Michael K.Foster, Lorcan Fox, Barbara M.Freeman, Gerald Friesen, Andre Furlani, Carole Gerson, André Gervais, Douglas Gibson, Richard Giguère, Susan Gingell, Chris Gittings, Joan Givner, Alexander Globe, Brian N.S.Gooch, Richard Gooding, Sherrill Grace, Lally Grauer, Michael Greene, Michael Greenstein, Constantin Grigorut, Konrad Gross, Patricia Gruben, Brett Josef Grubisic, Jennifer Gustar, Gwendolyn Guth, Stephen Guy-Bray, Stefan Haag, Annika Hannan, Michael E.Harkin, Dick Harrison, Alexander Hart, Carol J.Harvey, Tom Hastings, Ronald B.Hatch, Annette M.Hayward, Hugh Hazelton, Tim Heath, Gabriele Helms, Shannon Henger, Iain Higgins, Peter Hinchclffe, Heather G.Hodgson, Richard G.Hodgson, Nancy Holmes, Lucie Hotte, Coral Ann Howells, Henry Hubert, Renée Hulan, Margaret Hume, Giselle Huot, Michael Hurley, Lorna Irvine, Cornellius J.Jaenen, Elaine A.Jahner, Karl E.Jirgens, Marlene Kadar, Chelva Kanaganayakam, Yael Katz, J.Kieran Kealy, Christopher Keep, Michael P.J.Kennedy, David A.Kent, Adrienne Kertzer, Jon Kertzer, M.Dale Kinkade, Richard Bruce Kirkley, Rick Knowles, Susan Knutson, Jane Koustas, Eva-Marie Kröller, Martin Kuester, Ross Labrie, Michèle Lacombe, Yuan Lamonde, André Lamontagne, Linda Lamont-Stewart, Dorothy F.Lane, Jenny Lawn, Alan Lawson, David Leahy, Julie LeBlanc, Ross Leckie, Guy A.Lecomte, Yuan G.Lepage, Seymour Levitan, Kent Lewis, Mark Libin, Jim Littlewolf, Jerome Loisel, André Loiselle, Gerald Lynch, Mary Lu MacDonald, Roy MacGregor, Brent MacLaine, Roy MacSkimming, Peter Mahon, Robert Major, Joel Martineau, Lawrence Mathews, Joann McCaig, Catherine McClellan, Larry McDonald, Peter F.McNally, Kevin McNeilly, Kenneth W.Meadwell, Cynthia Messenger, Jacques Michon, Jay Miller, John Moffatt, Leslie Monkman, Shani Mootoo, Bill Moreau, Lawrence Morgan, A.Carol Morrell, Jane Moss, Miguel Mota, Peter Mountford, Lianne Moyes, Rebecca Murdoch, Ira B.Nadel, Catherine Nelson-McDermott, William H.New, Maria N.Ng, John D.Nichols, Miriam Nichols, Susie O'Brien, Ojibwe, Daniel O'Leary, Walter Pache, Ruth Panofsky, George L.Parker, Marnie Parsons, Janet M.Paterson, Barbara Pell, Donna Palmateer Pennee, David H.Pentland, Dominique Perron, Michael Peterman, Richard S.Phillips, Joseph Pivato, Guy Poirier, Neil Querengesser, Ian Rae, Robin H.Ramsey, Beverley Rasporich, Anne Rayner, Laurie Ricou, Robin Ridington, Leslie Ritchie, Katherine A.Roberts, Alain-Michel Rocheleau, Davif F.Rogers, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Mary Henley Rubio, Robert Runté, Anne M.Rusnak, Paul Matthew Saint Pierre, Heather Sanderson, Peter Sanger, Marlene Sawatsky, Andreas Schroeder, Stephen Scobie, Judy Segal, Jane Sellwood, Dorothy Shostak, Raymond G.Siemens, Winfried Siemerling, Stephen Slemon, Nelson C.Smith, Rowland Smith, Karen Solie, David Staines, Warren Stevenson, Jack Stewart, Kevin G.Stewart, David Stouck, Veronica Strong-Boag, J.R.Tim Struthers, Andrew Stubbs, Cynthia Sugars, Thomas E/Tausky, Peter A.Taylor, Neil Ten Kortenaar, Gerald Thomas, John Thurston, Dianne Tiefensee, Hilda Froese Tiessen, Helen Tiffin, Jane Tilley, Joanne Tompkins, Tony Tremblay, Marino Tuzi, Paul Tyndall, Renate Usmiani, Mariana Valverde, Penny Van Toorn, Marie Vautier, Jacqueline Viswanathan, Evelyne Voldeng, J.Andrew Wainwright, Julie E.Walchli, Douglas C.Walker, Tracy Ware, LindaWarley, Jerry Wasserman, Susan Wasserman, K.Jane Watt, Robin Waugh, Lorraine Weir, Terry Whalen, Agnès Whitfield, Claire Wilkshire, David Williams, Glenn Willmot, Deborah Wills, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, H.C.Wolfart, Donez Xiques, Lorraine York.

includes:

i) ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPTS, AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, by Joanne McCaig (pp.38-43; prose in 3 parts with passing reference to the bpNichol fonds at Simon Fraser University in part 2, Manuscripts, p.4o)

ii) AWARDS AND LITERARY PRIZES, by R.G.Siemens (pp.55-86; prose & lists in 49 parts with passing reference to Nichol in part 17, Governor General's Literary Awards, p.71)

iii) BARBOUR, Douglas, by G.N.Forst (p.92; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

iv) BARRETO-RIVERA, Rafael, by Marino Tuzi (p.93; prose with passing reference to Nichol & Four Horsemen)

v) BISSETT, Bill, by Michael Greene (p.121; prose with reference to Nichol as Bissett's 1st publisher (it was actually the other way around))

vi) BLASER, Robin, by Miriam Nichols (pp.126-128; prose with reference to Nichol p.127)

vii) BÖK, Christian, by Paul Dutton (p.13o; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

viii) BOOK DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION, by Richard Cavell (pp.131-137; prose in 6 parts with references to Nichol in part 4, The Era of Small Press Design, pp.135, 136)

ix) BOWERING, George, by Jon Kertzer (pp.145-147; prose with passing reference to Nichol p.146)

x) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, by Jon Kertzer (pp.198-2o1; prose with reference to Nichol's Once: A Lullaby p.2oo)

xi) CONCRETE POETRY, by Jars Balan (pp.229-23o; prose with reference to Nichol as the only named practitioner)

xii) COPITHORNE, Judith, by Kent Lewis (p.236; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

xiii) DAVEY, Frank, by Kent Lewis (p276; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

xiv) DUTTON, Paul, by William H.New (pp.323-324; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

xv) FOUR HORSEMEN, by Terry Whalen (pp.384-385; a prose paragraph multibio of Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery & Nichol)

xvi) GILBERT, Gerry, by William H.New (pp.436-437; prose with passing reference to Nichol, p.436)

xvii) HENDERSON, Brian, by William H.New (p.484; prose with reference to Henderson's dissertation on Nichol, Radical Poetics Dada)

xviii) KROETSCH, Robert, by Dianne Tiefensee (pp.592-594; prose with passing reference to Nichol, p.593)

xix) LIFE WRITING, by Marlene Kadar (pp.66o-666; prose in 3 parts with reference to Nichol & the martyrology in part 2, Applications, p.662)

xx) LONG POEM, by Charlene Diehl-Jones (pp.674-679; prose with references to Nichol & the martyrology pp.675, 678)

xxi) MCCAFFERY, Steve, by Kent Lewis (pp.72o-722; prose with references to Nichol throughout)

xxii) MCKINNON, Barry, by Mark Cochrane (p.731; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

xxiii) NICHOL, Barrie Phillip, by Stephen Scobie (pp.813-815; prose with 6 quotes by Nichol from:

––1. (source unknown: "language does not exist on one level, it exists on many. and rather than trying to find the one true level you must become fluent in all of them.")

––2. STATEMENT

––3. ""in the midst of life we are in death" draco" (lines 14-15 as misquoted by Re:Sounding [Dougas Barbour & Stephen Scobie] in Some Extracts from Some extracts[...])

––4. the martyrology book 4 (lines 191-192)

––5. "as there are words i haven't written" (line 7)

––6. (source unknown exactly where in the early marytryology: "set the vibratory axis of the world in motion"))

xxiv) ONDAATJE, Michael, by Winfried Siemerling (pp.845-848; prose with passing reference to Ondaatje's film on Nichol, sons of captain poetry, p.846)

xxv) ONTARIO, by William H.New (pp.848-849; prose with passing reference to Nichol)

xxvi) ORAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY, by Robin Ridington (pp.849-854; prose in 9 parts with passing reference to Nichol in part 7, Oral Literatures in Canada, p.854)

xxvii) PERFORMANCE POETRY, by Paul Dutton (pp.87o-871; prose with reference to Four Horsemen)

xxviii) POETRY IN SHORTER FORMS, by Kevin McNeilly (pp.877-887; prose with reference to Nichol p.886)

xxix) REANEY, James, by Joanne Tompkins (pp.938-941; prose with passing reference to Nichol, p.939)

xxx) SCOBIE, Stephen, by André Furlani (pp.1o21-1o22; prose with reference to Scobie's bpNichol: What History Teaches)

xxxi) SOUND POETRY, by Paul Dutton (pp.1o6o-1o62; prose with lotsa references to Nichol & Four Horsemen throughout)

xxxii) TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATIONS, AND CANADIAN LITERATURE, by Christopher Keep (pp.1o89-1o95; prose with a passage on Nichol pp.1o91-1o92 with a quote from Self-Reflexive No. 2)

xxxiii) TOSTEVIN, Lola Lemire, by Julie Beddoes (pp.1118-112o; prose with reference to Nichol as editor p.1118)

xxxiv) VISUAL ARTS AND WRITING, by George Fetherling (pp.117o-1174; prose with reference to Nichol p.1173)

xxxv) VISUAL POETRY, by Jars Balan (pp.1174-1175; prose with passing reference to Nichol p.1175)

xxxvi) WAH, Fred, by Karl E.Jirgens (pp.1177-1179; prose with passing reference to Nichol p.1179)

xxxvii) WATSON, Sheila, by George Bowering (pp.1197-1199; prose with passing reference to Nichol p.1199)

xxxviii) WATSON, Wilfred, by Denis Denisoff (pp.1199-12o2; prose with passing reference to Four Horsemen, p.12oo)

il) WEBB, Phyllis, by Pauline Butling (pp.12o4-12o6; prose with passing reference to Nichol p.12o6)

no date; De Tijger van Tibet by Edward Multon. Dutch mystery writer Herman van der Voort.

"An entirely new Conjuring book written for boys, containing many sleights now published for the first time. The author has included only tricks which require no special apparatus or such as can be easily made or devised by the average boy.

"There are chapters on SIDE SHOW and ANIMAL TRICKS, VENTRILOQUISM, JUGGLING, HINDU MAGIC, etc., etc.

"The book is fully illustrated with 120 Photographs and Sketches."

Broomhill Oxfam, Sheffield

Rowland Hilder was a well-known artist and illustrator and this is an example of his work - a dustjacket for a Cassell's edition of the Foolscap Rose by Joseph Hergesheimer.

The first appearance of Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend” was in a modest paperback:

www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/12331913683/in/album-7...

Nevertheless, it became the basis for 3 subsequent motion pictures: “The Last Man on Earth” (1964) with Vincent Price, “The Omega Man” (1971) with Charlton Heston, and “I Am Legend” (2007) with Will Smith. It was also the inspiration behind George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” (1968). The concept of a worldwide viral apocalypse giving rise to zombies originated in Matheson’s book.

The jacket painting is the artist's conception of the Jura Mountains on the Sinus Iridum as seen from a crater in Mare Imbrium. What the lunar surface is, how man will get to it, and what he will do when he arrives there is the subject of "Man and the Moon," which was published just weeks before John F. Kennedy proposed going there by the end of the decade. Basic questions about the moon are discussed in the book including: Is the moon covered with a thin film of dust - or with 300 feet of it and what is the best place to land? Imagine landing on the moon and sinking in hundreds of feet of dust, a legitimate concern back then.

“. . . a lush, colorful, dynamic record of the development of science fiction art and of the great diversity of styles and approaches that this art form encompasses. Presented in nearly seven hundred carefully selected plates, “Infinite Worlds” assembles many of the finest examples of fantastic art ever created and incorporates these in a text that details the history and evolution of this fascinating subject. . .” [Excerpt from the text on the dustjacket]

[Note: "as enjoyable to read as to look through" -- Goodreads. I couldn't agree more.]

The Hobbit

Dust Jacket Tribute not quite finshed

“Watch Mr. Wizard” was an American television program (1951–1965) for children that demonstrated the science behind ordinary things. The show's creator and on-air host was Don Herbert. It enjoyed consistent praise, awards, and high ratings throughout its history. At its peak, “Watch Mr. Wizard” drew audiences in the millions, but its impact was far wider. By 1956, it had prompted the establishment of more than five thousand Mr. Wizard science clubs, with an estimated membership greater than one hundred thousand. It was briefly revived in 1971, and then in the 1980s was a program on the Nickelodeon children’s television network as “Mr. Wizard’s World.” [Source: Wikipedia]

Title: EUPHORBIA JOURNAL volume 1;

Authors: various (eleven articles of top authorities);

Publisher: Strawberry Press, California, U.S.A.;

Edition: first (1983);

Pages: 130 (200 color photos);

Hardbound w/color dustjacket;

Size:7-1/4" x 10-1/2";

ISBN: 0-912647-0-0

ISSN: 0737-8823

photo:

Euphorbia triangularis at Patensie (near Port Elizabeth) in the southern Cape Province of South Africa.

Richard Jefferies - The Story of My Heart

Penguin Illustrated Classics C9, 1938

Cover Artist: Gertrude Hermes

edited by Willis Barnstone & Mary Ellen Solt.

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, [winter/spring] 1968.

8-7/16 x 1o, 78 sheets white claycoat folded to 312 pp in 2o signatures (19 of 4 sheets, 19th of 2), sewn ivory in 7 stitches & glued into plain pumpkin heavy wove endpapers & 8-11/16 x 1o-1/4 navy-printed white cloth-covered boards, front cover & spine only printed white heatstamp, interiors all printed black offset with various colour additions scattered throughout, in 8-11/16 x 1o-5/16 white glossy dustjacket with 4" flaps printed black offset recto only with yellow addition to front cover & front flap; page 96 with 26-1/4 x 5 sheet white wove folded to 4 pp accordion of 3 panels 6-1/4, bottom panel 7-1/2 tipped in at gutter, printed black offset recto only.

cover by Mary Ellen Solt.

131 contributors ID'd:

Aner Andrósave, Germana Arcelli, Alain Arias-Misson, Ronaldo Azeredo, Stephen Bann, Zdenek Barborka, Willis Barnstone, Carlo Belloli, Hana Benes, Max Bense, Julien Blaine, Russell Block, Louise Bogan, Jean-François Bory, Edgrad Braga, Otto Breicha, Claus Bremer, José A.Cáceres, Julio Campal, Carmen Campos, Barbara Cantarino, Louis Celis, Guillermo Céspedes, Tana Céspedes, Henri Chopin, Henry Clyne, Robert Creeley, E.E.Cummings, John Dearstyne, Augusto De Campos, Haroldo De Campos, Joanquín Díez De Fortuny, Ignazio Gómez De Liaño, E.M.De Meló E Castro, Maria José De Queiroz, Paul De Vree, Reihard Döhl, Öyvind Fahlström, Albert Ferlin, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thomas Fuggman, John Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse Garnier, Pierre Garnier, Mathias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Peter Greenham, Bohumila Grögerová, José Lino Grünewald, Marco Guimarães, Vivien Halas, James Harford, Václav Havel, Bernard Heidsieck, Dick Higgins, Josef Hirsal, Kati Horna, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Gregory Hull, Ernst Jandl, Ronald Johnson, Kitasono Katué, Graham Keen, Benard Kirchhoff, Anthony Kok, Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, Michael Langley, Clarence John Laughlin, Robert Lax, Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Hakan Lindström, Helen Liu, Karen Loevgren, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Karin Mack, Hansjörg Mayer, Ruth Mayer, Timothy Mayer, Ann McGarrell, Fernando Millán, Sandra L.Miller, Herminio Molero, Franz Mon, Piet Mondrian, Peter Moore, Edwin Morgan, bpNichol, Seiichi Niikuni, David Noblett, Ladislav Novák, Lief Nylén, [-?-] Ocarte, Eduardo Ovcácek, José Paulo Paes, Octavio Paz, Yüksel Pazarkaya, Ferdinand Piedmont, Décio Pignatari, Luiz Ángelo Pinto, Ruth Rhee, Diter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Jesús Garciá Sánchez, Kurt Sanmark, Aram Saroyan, Larry Siegel, Irène Montjoye Sinor, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Vagn Steen, J.R.Stroeter, Nigel Sutton, Salette Tavares, Jon Tolman, Barbara Trautwein, Enrique Uribe, Jiri Valoch, Theo Van Doesburg, Leon Van Essche, Fernando López Vera, Ivo Vroom, Mike Weaver, Oswald Wiener, Ann Wilkinson, Emmett Williams, Jonathan Williams, Pedro Xisto, Louis Zukofsky.

Nichol contributes:

i) "love" [ie Blues] (concrete poem typeset by Vivien Halas, p.216; typesetting incorrectly attributed to Hansjörg Mayer)

also includes:

ii) CANADA, by Mary Ellen Solt (prose, p.47; as a summary of what was going in Canada at the time, this is just so completely lame that i can't resist quoting the entry in its entirety: "Canada's leading concrete poet is B. P. Nichol, one of the editors of GRONK. From his text we learn that "love" (Figure/13) is also a beautiful word to look at."; she evidently fails to recognize the horrific scream that cleaves the entirety)

iii) [untitled portrait of bpNichol], unattributed (photograph, p.3o1)

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seemingly published from the same plates as Artes Hispanica but lacking some acknowledgements contained in that edition. the colophon calls for a simultaneous edition "Published in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Scarborough, Ontario", which apparently occurred but i've not been able to track down a copy as yet.

This book from The World Publishing Co. 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.

Per Columbia ad Columbia ad me via ??.

LOWY, George. A Searcher's Manual. L.: Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., n.d. (copyright 1965, The Shoe String Press). Pp (4),[v]-[xii],(2),[3]-104. 8vo, grey cloth.

In the New Librarianship Series.

"A step-by-step presentation of searching techiques, based in part on everyday practice of the Searching Unit of the Acquistions Department of the Columbia University Libraries. The aim of the work is to describe actual and desirable practice rather than to create rules or to reflect one institution's routines. Efficient searching depends upon the quality and extent of training which the bibliographer - or other supervisor - is able to give the searching unit, as well as the members' qualifications (general education, attitude and aptitude, intelligence, knowledge of languages, subject matter background, etc.) for their work. " - from the dj.

Discarded from the British Council Central Library, Bogata. With the Council's "Truth Will Triumph" bookplate. Various library stamps, etc. Else vg in dj with a May 4th 1999 penned inscription by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio host Jurgen Gothe, mentioning collectors of "quirkitude and quixotica."

Jacket illustration shows the library of the Daily Mirror newspaper.

Book by Gerhard Keiderling: " Berlin 1945-1986, Geschichte der Hauptstadt der DDR ", Dietz Verlag Berlin 1987.

Book cover design by George Salter for The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard. New York: Knopf, 1966.

John B. Mitchell, owner of the Seven X Ranch, started out with a few saddle horses that wasn't his and a long rope. He left Texas, in a hurry, in the late 1870's and drifted northward. Half a century later he was the monarch of a pretty fair sized outfit -- sixty miles long and over forty miles wide, with rivers and two mountain ranges and fine rolling country -- and thousands of cattle.

This is the story of life on the Seven X, of the Mitchell family and the cowboys who worked for them: of young Austin Mitchell and his sister June, and of the "pilgrims" from the East who invited themselves to the Seven X one summer to find out what "real" ranch life was like.

Without pulling a single six-gun, fanning a trigger, or using any other stock device of Western fiction, Will James tells the story of life on the Seven X Ranch during the early 1900s. This authentic portrait of a ranching family details their dangerous work, their dreams and aspirations, and the rugged land they lived in.

A SURVEY OF ARTISTS' EPHEMERA, 1960-1999.

edited by SArephen Leiber.

Santa Monica, Smart Art Press, for 12 october - 8 december 2oo1. issuedas [--?--] vol.3 nr.76. ISBN 1-889195-48-o.

11 x 9-1/16, 32 sheets white claycoat & 16 sheets white bond folded to 12 signatures of 4 sheets each with single leaf white claycoat tipped to front of 1st bond leaf & full folded sheet of white bond tipped to rear of the last signaturee, all sewn pearl white in 13 stitches & glued into white Torréon Cotton laid endpapers & 11-5/16 x 9-7/16 blue cloth-covered boards printed tan silkscreen front cover only with 5/8" red & yellow head- & tailband appliqués, interiors all printed offset, claycoat primarily 4-colour process with clear base printed under all illuss. (all but 22 pp), bond all black only (last leaf blank), in white matte PVC chromecoat dustjacket with 5-1/16" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.

cover by Dave Muller.

316 contributors ID'd:

Martine Aballéa, Kim Abeles, Marina Abramovic, Gordon Adams, Bas Jan Ader, Todd Alden, Terry Allen, Francis Alÿs, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Pat Andrea, Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, Stephen Antonakos, Shigeo Anzai, Shusaku Arakawa, Stel[ios ]Arc[adiou], Keith Arnatt, Michael Asher, David Askevold, Tim Ayres, Lutz Bacher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Peter Barton, Lothar Baumgarten, Iain Baxter, Ingrid Baxter, Bill Beirne, Larry Bell, Barton Lidice Benes, Lynda Benglis, Billy Al Bengston, Bob Benson, Wallace Berman, Joseph Beuys, Patrick Blackwell, Julien Blaine, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Jonathan Borofsky, Jean-François Bory, Louise Bourgeois, George Brecht, A.A.Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Gunter Brus, Mark Brusse, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Werner Büttner, James Lee Byars, Andre Cadere, Luis Camnitzer, Ernest Caramelle, José Luis Castillejo, Jose Guillermo Castillo, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, Alan Charlton, Claude Closky, Bruce Conner, José Cortés, Meg Cranston, Martin Creed, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Hanne Darboven, Lowell Darling, Leonardo Da Vinci, Augusto De Campos, Anny De Decker, Tony Delap, Walter De Mareia, Niki De Saint Phalle, Jan Dibbets, Erik Dietman, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Oliver Dowling, Peter Downsbrough, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Duff, Sam Durant, Bruni Encke, "Endart", Pieter Engels, Donald Evans, John Fekner, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jory Felice, Arman[d Fernandez], Rafael Ferrer, Tony Figallo, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sabato Fiorello, Joel Fisher, Dan Flavin, Sylvie Fleury, Llyn Foulkes, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Gran Fury, Isa Genzken, Jochen Gerz, Paul-Armand Gette, David Gilhooly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Arthur Gordon, Camille Gordon, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Rodney Alan Greenblatt, Nigel Greenwood, Joseph Grigely, Red Grooms, Aaronel Gruber, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, M.Haberland, Jonas Hafner, [--?--] Haigh, Keith Haring, Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison, Michael Harvey, Itsuko Hsegawa, Michael Heizer, George Herms, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Jenny Holzer, Davi Det Hompson, Sam Hsieh, Tehching Hsieh, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, General Idea, [Tak]Ay-O Iijima, Robert Indiana, Jim Iserman, Ray Johnson, Donald Judd, Stephen Kaltenbach, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, János Kender, Gary Neill Kennedy, Karen Kilimnik, Ben Kinmojnt, Martin Kippenberger, Robin Klassnik, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Alison Knowles, Vitaly Komar, Walter König, Jeff Koons, Harmony Korine, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Rosalind Kraus, Ruth Krauss, Barbara Kruger, Suzanne Lacey, Sean Landers, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Dirk Larsen, Louise Lawler, [Frank] U[we ]Lay[siepen], Jean Le Gac, Steven Leiber, Annie Leibovitz, Cary Leibowitz, John Lennon, Claude Lévêque, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Sharon Lockhart, Richard J.Long, Chip Lord, Reiner Lucassen, George Maciunas, Peter Mackertick, Kiki Maier-Kahn, Walter Marchetti, Tomás Marco, Brice Marden, Tom Marioni, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Herta [Masarié], Luis Mataix, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Gordon Matta-Clark, Roger Matthys, Roger Mazarguil, John McCracken, Fred W.McDarrah, David McDermott, Peter McGough, Jerry McMillan, Alexander Melamid, Annette Messager, Joe Messinger, Gustav Metzger, Doug Michels, Talmage Minter, Anne Moeglin-Delacroix, Pieter Laurens Mol, Linda Montano, Peter Moore, Robert Morris, Oliver Mosset, Dave Muller, Maurizio Nannucci, Bruce Naumann, Toni Negri, Max Neuhaus, bpNichol, George Nicolaidis, Richard Nonas, Jim Nutt, Antoinette Ohannessian, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Marcus Oppitz, Gabriel Orozco, Nam June Paik, Michel Parmentier, Martin Parr, Felix Partz, George [Passmore], Tom Patchett, Izhar Patkin, A.R.Penck, Charles Penwarden, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, Genesis P-Orridge, Liliamna Porter, Lucio Pozzi, Gilbert [Prousch], Tom Puckey, Ted Purves, Patricia Railing, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Jamelle Reiring, James Riddle, Klaus Rinke, Larry Rivers, Dorothea Rockburne, Nigel Rolfe, Kay Rosen, Martha Rosler, Diter Rot, Ralph Rugoff, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Fred Sandback, [--?--] Schwitt, Sarah Seager, Richard Serra, Judith Shea, Bonnie Sherk, Cindy Sherman, Chieko Shiomi, Mieko Shiomi, Harry Shunk, Seth Siegelaud, Phillips Simkin, Folker Skulima, Alexis Smith, Kiki Smith, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Daniel Spoerri, Marlene Steeruwitz, Philip Steinmetz, Johannes Stüttgen, Mitcxhell Syrop, Ernest T, Taroop & Glabel, N.E.Thing Co.Ltd, Jean Tinguely, Laureana Toledo, Niele Toroni, Endre Tót, David Tremlett, Bernard Tschumi, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Uri Tzaig, Timm Ulrichs, Lily Van Der Stokker, Ger Van Elk, [Joep] Van Lieshout, Ben Vautier, Jessica Voorsanger, Wolf Vostell, [Jos?] Vulto, Andy Warhol, Minoru Watanabe, Robert Watts, Jan Webb, Lawrence Weiner, Reindeer Werk, Pae White, Joyce Wieland, Hannah Wilke, Ian Wilson, Christopher Wool, Tadasu Yamamoto, Marian Zazeela, Jorge Zontal.

Nichol inclusion:

i) calendar (p.1o8; concrete poem, halftoned colour reduction of the Openings Press edition)

also includes:

ii) EXTRA ART: SURVEYING ARTISTS' EPHEMERA, 1960-1999, by Todd Alden & Steven Leiber (pp.21-36; prose in 2o parts; with passing reference to Nichol in part 11, VISUAL POETRY (p.27))

no date; Het uitgestorven Dorp by Robert Bloomfoeld. Cover art by John Collin. Dutch Hardcover with dust-jacket.

The jacket design is by Ray Boultinghouse.

Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III, two of the world’s leading experts on rocketry and astronautics, collaborated on this comprehensive history of man’s conquest of space. The book was published in 1966, two years before Apollo 8, which was the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit. The book is lavishly illustrated and begins with ancient Babylonian and Greek concepts of the universe, covers the development of rockets by Chinese, Arabic, and medieval European experimenters, and explains the twentieth century plans for manned missions to the Moon, Mars, and Venus.

The book describes the work of such great rocket pioneers as America’s Goddard, Germany’s Oberth, Russia’s Tsiolkovsky, Great Britain’s Isaac Lubbock, and France’s Esnault-Pelterie. It also details the experiments of Von Braun and Walter R. Dornberger in Germany before World War II, and gives a full account of their development team on the V-2 rocket at the Peeneműnde Center. The dramatic story of the German scientists’ surrender to American forces in 1945, as well as their eventual accomplishments at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal and subsequently NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is also told at first hand.

Wernher von Braun became the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center on July 1, 1960 and held that post until January 27, 1970. Under his supervision the center worked on the Saturn space launch vehicles. The Saturn family of American rocket boosters was developed by mostly German rocket scientists to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. Originally proposed as a military satellite launcher, they were adopted as the launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program.

Frederick I. Ordway III was in charge of space systems information at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center from 1960 to 1963, and before that performed a similar function for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville.

A collection of various dust jacket designs by Abner Graboff throughout the years.

From top L to R:

The House of the Angel: 1957

Against Heaven's Hand: 1963

Make A Killing: 1964

The Fourth Side Of The Triangle: 1965

Making It Simple: 1971

Please Pass The Guilt: 1973

Faith and the Good Thing: 1974

God And All His Angels: 1977

The Animal Factory: 1977

Jake's Thing: 1979

The Relief Pitcher: 1979

Darkness Over the Valley: 1981

Jasper Maskelyne, a successful magician on the London stage, was recruited by the British Government in World War II to use his magical talents to deceive and confuse the Germans. He and his hand-picked Magic Gang used the technique of stage magic to confound Rommel and his Afrika Korps with the most incredible array of illusions and special effects ever produced on the battlefield. They hid the Suez Canal. They moved the Alexandria Harbor. They created dummy tanks, disguised real tanks as trucks and created an entire army out of shadow. They launched a phantom fleet of submarines and a 700-foot battleship. Maskelyne also devised kits for POW’s with tools for escape and sabotage hidden in their boots and polishing brushes. He created a mini-submarine that sank a cargo ship bringing heavy water to Nazi A-bomb laboratories and perfected a fire repellant paste that saved the lives of hundreds of aviators. Maskelyne was so successful in deceiving the Germans that Hitler ordered the Gestapo to assassinate him. Needless to say, they failed. Maskelyne died in Kenya in 1973.

Here is one of Maskelyne's inflatable Sherman tanks:

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Dustjacket of a Recommended Book

Christina Kiaer

Imagine no Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 2005

In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conception of objects as being more than commodities. "Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades," wrote Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by examining objects produced by Constructivist artists between 1923 and 1925: Vladimir Tatlin's prototype designs for pots and pans and other everyday objects, Liubov' Popova's and Varvara Stepanova's fashion designs and textiles, Rodchenko's packaging and advertisements for state-owned businesses (made in collaboration with revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky), and Rodchenko's famous design for the interior of a workers' club. These artists, heeding the call of Constructivist manifestos to abandon the nonobjective painting and sculpture of the early Russian avant-garde and enter into Soviet industrial production, aimed to work as "artist-engineers" to produce useful objects for everyday life in the new socialist collective.Kiaer shows how these artists elaborated on the theory of the socialist object-as-comrade in the practice of their art. They broke with the traditional model of the autonomous avant-garde, Kiaer argues, in order to participate more fully in the political project of the Soviet state. She analyzes Constructivism's attempt to develop modernist forms to forge a new comradely relationship between human subjects and the mass-produced objects of modernity; Constructivists could "imagine no possessions" (as John Lennon's song puts it) not by eliminating material objects but by eliminating the possessive relation to them. Considering such Constructivist objects as flapper dresses and cookie advertisements, Kiaer creates a dialogue between the more famous avant-garde works of these artists and their quirkier, less appreciated utilitarian objects. Working in the still semicapitalist Russia of the New Economic Policy, these artists were imagining, by creating their comradely objects, a socialist culture that had not yet arrived.

Source: www.amazon.com/Imagine-No-Possessions-Socialist-Construct...

These are all the hardback books I own. I decided to put them all on one shelf. Then I ditched the dust jackets.

Poems for children.

edited by Fiona Waters.

London (England), Orion Children's Books, [october] 1996. ISBN 1-85881-183-x.

6-1/8 x 8-7/16, 72 sheets ivory wove folded to 288 pp in 9 signatures of 8 sheets each, sewn cream in 9 double stitches & glued into plain white kraft endpapers & 6-5/16 x 8-3/4 bright blue linen paper-covered boards printed silver foil heatstamp spine only, interiors all printed black offset, in 6-5/16 x 8-3/4 white semigloss dustjacket printed 4-colour process offset recto only.

cover by Ian Butterworth.

141 contributors ID'd:

Matthew Arnold, W.H.Auden, Richard Harris Barham, Matsuo Basho, Thomas Haynes Bayly, John Betjeman, William Blake, Valerie Bloom, Edmund Blunden, Richard Brautigan, R.P.Brett, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Robert Burns, Ian Butterworth, H.D.Carberry, Charles E.Carryl, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Alice Cary, Charles Causley, C.P.Cavafy, Elsie Cawser, Wang Chien, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, William Clarke, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Tim Connors, William Cowper, C.P.Cranch, Caroline Crossland, John Cunliffe, Fred D'Aguiar, Walter De La Mare, C.P.S.Denholm-Young, Emily Dickinson, Berlie Doherty, John Donne, Alfred Douglas, Michael Drayton, Carol Ann Duffy, Oliver Dunne, Richard Edwards, U.A.Fanthorpe, Elaine Feinstein, Eugene Field, Rose Flint, Rosanne Flynn, John Foster, Theodore Geisel, Dan George, W.S.Gilbert, Oliver Goldsmith, Philip Gross, Sarah Josepha Hale, Thomas Hardy, David Harmer, Michael Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Mary Ann Hoberman, Thomas Hood, Kevin Horted, A.E.Housman, Julia Ward Howe, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Emyr Humphreys, Leigh Hunt, Randall Jarrell, Tudor Jenks, Elizabeth Jennings, John Keats, Edmund Keeley, Brendan Kennelly, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Liz Lochhead, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Lowbury, E.V.Lucas, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lindsay MacRae, John Masefield, Gerda Mayer, Roger McGough, Florence McNeil, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Moore, Brian Morse, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Bernard O'Donoghue, Gareth Owen, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Love Peacock,

Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Duke Redbird, James Whitcomb Riley, Christina Rossetti, Clive Snsom, John Godfrey Saxe, Vernon Scannell, Walter Scott, Danielle Sensier, William Shakespeare, Philip Sherrard, Philip Sidney, Shel Silverstein, Eric Simpson, Matt Simpson, Lemn Sissay, John Smith, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Robert Southey, John Squire, Hal Summers, Efua Sutherland, Rabindrinath Tagore, Alfred Tennyson, A.S.J.Tessimond, William Makepeace Thackeray, Celia Thaxter, Edward Thomas, R.S.Thomas, Steve Turner, Walter James Turner, Barrie Wade, Arthur Waley, Alaric A.Watts, John Greenleaf Whittier, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, Nancy Willard, William Carlos Williams, Charles Wolfe, William Butler Yeats, Andrew Young, Benjamin Zephaniah.

Nichol "contributes":

i) A Path To The Moon (poem, 24 lines; p.163)

L. Sprague de Camp provides a history of the heroic fantasy genre from prehistoric myths and legends, biographical sketches of its leading practitioners, and literary criticism of the classic writings.

If a single individual may be said to have invented modern heroic fantasy, it was William Morris, the nineteenth-century English artist, decorator, poet, writer, publisher, industrialist, and reformer. In his last years, Morris composed several novels in imitation of the medieval romance. These are tales of romantic adventure, laid in imaginary pre-industrial realms in which magic prevails and supernatural beings participate actively in human affairs.

De Camp explores the subsequent development of this genre as Lord Dunsany adapted the sword & sorcery formula to the short story, while Eric Rucker Eddison fitted it to the mold of the Icelandic saga. Heroic fantasy attained its maturity with Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," T. H. White's "Once and Future King," and Robert E. Howard's stirring tales of Conan the Cimmerian. Other twentieth-century authors discussed include Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, C. L. Moore, Fletcher Pratt, and Clark Ashton Smith.

The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. These seven original American astronauts were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton. Alan Shepard was the second person and the first American to travel into space. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space.

The story of the macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program of the Mercury astronauts and the equally fearless approach of test pilot Chuck Yeager was the basis of a book by Tom Wolfe (1979) and a movie by Philip Kaufman (1983). Both are titled “The Right Stuff.” Here is a link to the movie trailer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1n6qQS3_A

Paper…

Paper… I love the way it smells;

Paper…I love the way it ages;

Paper… I love the way you can write on it;

Paper… I love the way it feels against my fingers when I read;

Paper…I love how light it is but yet it can hold entire lifetimes, facts and figures or magical kingdoms on it and it doesn’t break;

Paper… I love it best because it is what makes a book!

For my Flickr groups…

Harry Harrison believes that sex is the favorite intergalactic pastime and his evidence consists of comics and illustrations that show the sexual exploits of science fiction characters through the years. Harrison's humorous anecdotes and provocative illustrations are taken from some of the most famous SF stories of all time. Topics range from the suggestive poses of alien maidens in "Flash Gordon" to the homoerotic relationship between Batman and Robin. Harrison also wonders about Wonder Woman and her band of girls in their tight and revealing outfits.

Designed by E. McKnight Kauffer

Modern Library, 1934

The book contains nine “what if” stories. They roam freewheeling across the galaxy from Earth to Prxl, and across time from the early campaigns of Napolean to a day in the future when organized crime meets its Waterloo. What if you were shipwrecked alone on a strange planet? Or, what if you saw the stars changing places? Or, what if the last woman on Earth said she wouldn’t marry you if you were the last man on Earth – which you happened to be? In such funny yarns as PI IN THE SKY and NOTHING SIRIUS, Brown shows how humorous science fiction can be, and in COME AND GO MAD, how terrifying.

Scenes from the David O. Selznick film “Duel in the Sun” by Niven Busch. A Forum Motion Picture Edition.

The film stars Jennifer Jones as half-Native American girl Pearl Chavez, Gregory Peck as ladies' man Lewton “Lewt” McCanles, Joseph Cotton as gentlemanly lawyer Jesse McCanles, Lionel Barrymore as Senator Jackson McCanles (in the wheelchair), Herbert Marshall as Pearl’s father Scott Chavez, and Lillian Gish as the Senator’s gentle and gracious wife Laura Belle McCanles.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrP_CtoeO9E

Doc Savage is the golden crusader who fought crime in 181 adventures between 1933 and 1949 in pulp magazines. These famous stories by Lester Dent gave readers only glimpses of Doc Savage's amazing career. Philip Jose Farmer collected all the facts that shed light on Doc Savage and wrote this tongue-in-cheek biography of one of the great fictional heroes of the 20th century.

Included in the biography are Doc Savage's family background -- he is related to Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, James Bond, and Travis McGee -- his most devilish opponents including The Mystic Mullah and even where his offices were located -- the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.

Farmer lists a number of Doc's "inventions" that are in general use today, including radar, shark repellent, and supersonic dog whistles. He notes that Doc's anesthetic gas grenade, years before most people knew of the existence of such a weapon, helped capture King Kong.

The final section of the book has a chronological log of Doc's life, correlated in complete detail from all the stories. Together with other data and deductions, it presents an authoritative account of this remarkable character.

Dutch detective of Havank (H.F. van der Kallen). - Vier vreemde vrienden. Published by Bruna, Utrecht in de Boek van de Maand serie in 1950. Dustjacket by Tanner (Rein van Looij)

Hardback with dust jacket.

Richard Corben made much of his reputation in the underground comics but, with their demise, he went on to become one of the most respected comic artists in the USA and in Europe. His Funny Book is a collection of graphic novels for adults. Most are illustrated in black & white. Two are in color. The stories are “The Beast of Wolfton,” “Lame Lem’s Love” (in color), “Horrible Harvey’s House!,” “Flys,” “Kittens for Christian,” “Melton’s Big Game,” “The Secret of Zokma,” “Twilight of the Dogs,” “For the Love of a Daemon,” “When Dreams Collide,” and “Den” (partly in color).

FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978) alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine – published from 1972 to 1989.

FILE magazine Summer-1978 General Idea

General Idea: FILE megazine, vol 4, issue 1, summer 1978 (the “1984: A Year in Pictures” issue), edition of 3,000 copies.

FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978). Toronto: General Idea, 1978

35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number from General Idea's art periodical where the trio published conceptual, mail and intermedia art including the GI's own work - often with a homoerotic element. This number has GI's "General Idea flees the burning pavilion in 1984" and several articles on Miss General idea 1984. One slight crease on the back cover and front lower-right corner and spine wear and, as ever, browned internal newsprint pages else VG+. Scarce.

1978

FILE Megazine ("1984: A Year in Pictures," Vol. 4, #1, summer 1978)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1978

Publisher:General Idea, Toronto

Book Condition: VG+

35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers

GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994

An alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine --published from 1972 to 1989--

Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson of General Idea lived and worked together for 25 years. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. AA Bronson continues to work under his own name

The General Idea Archive is now on deposit at the National Gallery of Canada. You can access the finding aid here:

national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc112.html

In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, an organization devoted to collecting, publishing and distributing artists' books, multiples, audio and video.

Read about FILE Megazine in Artforum here:

www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org/artforum.htm

General Idea, Fluxus, Mail Art, Ray Johnson and the importance of Art Magazines as the forerunners of Social Networking:

The first issues of FILE, the publication launched in April 1972 by the Toronto-based group General Idea (comprising artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal), leave a different, less sober impression than previous magazine-based Conceptual art projects. Lifting its name and logo from the most famous (and popular) postwar US glossy, Life, FILE clearly anticipated a strategy that today is an everyday youth-cultural ploy: namely, logo-busting, an ironic game with the powerful markers of consumer culture, a small act of semiotic subversion whereby one borrows power from the public side of capital--and momentarily uses it against itself.

For the better part of a century artists have been using the format of the periodical to create and disseminate their work. Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Void, another iconic work, was published in the artist’s broadsheet publication Dimanche, which was sold at Parisian newsstands in 1960. Artists' magazines were integral to numerous important movements, such as Conceptual Art, Mail Art, Performance Art, Intermedia, Concrete Poetry, Neo-Dadaism and Fluxus.

The name Fluxus was originally coined by George Maciunas for the title of a magazine of experimental notation that he had hoped to produce.

For the uninitiated, a simple distinction suffices: the “artist periodical” is a primary source and an “art magazine” is a secondary one. That is to say, whereas an art magazine features reproductions and documentation of artwork as illustrations, the artist periodical is an alternative site for the realization of art works rather than their review.

Like their cousins, artists’ books and multiples, artists’ periodicals were intended to be easily distributable, affordable and accessible. And now – much like artists’ books and multiples – they can be difficult to track down and often costly. Complete sets of FILE megazine can sell for upwards of $5,000. Depending on the issue, a single copy of Aspen magazine might sell for the same price. Putting together complete collections piecemeal is the artworld equivalent of collecting a complete set of baseball cards. Critical discourse, too, has been hard to come by; apart from a few key articles, very little has been published on the subject of artists’ magazines.

Publications by General Idea:

THIS IS A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED AND EDITED BY GENERAL IDEA

(Note: FILE Megazine was published by Art Official Inc. in varying edition sizes ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 copies)

A Side note about A.A. Bronson: He wrote …

Mail art was expanding exponentially as ….

FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978) alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine – published from 1972 to 1989.

FILE magazine Summer-1978 General Idea

General Idea: FILE megazine, vol 4, issue 1, summer 1978 (the “1984: A Year in Pictures” issue), edition of 3,000 copies.

FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978). Toronto: General Idea, 1978

35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number from General Idea's art periodical where the trio published conceptual, mail and intermedia art including the GI's own work - often with a homoerotic element. This number has GI's "General Idea flees the burning pavilion in 1984" and several articles on Miss General idea 1984. One slight crease on the back cover and front lower-right corner and spine wear and, as ever, browned internal newsprint pages else VG+. Scarce.

1978

FILE Megazine ("1984: A Year in Pictures," Vol. 4, #1, summer 1978)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1978

Publisher:General Idea, Toronto

Book Condition: VG+

35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers

GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994

An alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine --published from 1972 to 1989--

Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson of General Idea lived and worked together for 25 years. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. AA Bronson continues to work under his own name

The General Idea Archive is now on deposit at the National Gallery of Canada. You can access the finding aid here:

national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc112.html

In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, an organization devoted to collecting, publishing and distributing artists' books, multiples, audio and video.

Read about FILE Megazine in Artforum here:

www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org/artforum.htm

General Idea, Fluxus, Mail Art, Ray Johnson and the importance of Art Magazines as the forerunners of Social Networking:

The first issues of FILE, the publication launched in April 1972 by the Toronto-based group General Idea (comprising artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal), leave a different, less sober impression than previous magazine-based Conceptual art projects. Lifting its name and logo from the most famous (and popular) postwar US glossy, Life, FILE clearly anticipated a strategy that today is an everyday youth-cultural ploy: namely, logo-busting, an ironic game with the powerful markers of consumer culture, a small act of semiotic subversion whereby one borrows power from the public side of capital--and momentarily uses it against itself.

For the better part of a century artists have been using the format of the periodical to create and disseminate their work. Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Void, another iconic work, was published in the artist’s broadsheet publication Dimanche, which was sold at Parisian newsstands in 1960. Artists' magazines were integral to numerous important movements, such as Conceptual Art, Mail Art, Performance Art, Intermedia, Concrete Poetry, Neo-Dadaism and Fluxus.

The name Fluxus was originally coined by George Maciunas for the title of a magazine of experimental notation that he had hoped to produce.

For the uninitiated, a simple distinction suffices: the “artist periodical” is a primary source and an “art magazine” is a secondary one. That is to say, whereas an art magazine features reproductions and documentation of artwork as illustrations, the artist periodical is an alternative site for the realization of art works rather than their review.

Like their cousins, artists’ books and multiples, artists’ periodicals were intended to be easily distributable, affordable and accessible. And now – much like artists’ books and multiples – they can be difficult to track down and often costly. Complete sets of FILE megazine can sell for upwards of $5,000. Depending on the issue, a single copy of Aspen magazine might sell for the same price. Putting together complete collections piecemeal is the artworld equivalent of collecting a complete set of baseball cards. Critical discourse, too, has been hard to come by; apart from a few key articles, very little has been published on the subject of artists’ magazines.

Publications by General Idea:

THIS IS A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED AND EDITED BY GENERAL IDEA

(Note: FILE Megazine was published by Art Official Inc. in varying edition sizes ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 copies)

A Side note about A.A. Bronson: He wrote …

Mail art was expanding exponentially as ….

The series of Faber Books cookery books by Ambrose Heath are well known for their dustjackets or wrappers designed by Edward Bawden, This advert is from the 1936 Typography magazine by Shenval Press.

First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. 8vo., publisher's heavy grain decorated beige cloth. A near fine copy in like dustjacket, bright, clean and fresh. Housed in a tailor made leather spined case. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:

"For Jules and Joyce and also Joan with love John Steinbeck."

Beneath the signature is one of Steinbeck's irreverent flying pig sketches (or "Pigasus" if you prefer), generally an indication that the recipient of his presentation was a close and valued friend,or someone he held in high esteem. In this case it was Jules Buck, and Joyce Gates, with their young daughter, Joan. Jules Buck started out as John Huston's camerman for his wartime documentaries (”Winning Your Wings", "Let There Be Light" etc.) and then grew into an influential producer, both in the US and abroad. Although having a sketchy working relationship with Huston, they reportedly fell out over Huston's anti-Semitic behaviour (Huston later referred to Buck as "My body servant" which is obviously super healthy). He collaborated with Steinbeck on the screenplay of what would end up as Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata", although uncredited, and later produced "The Killers", "The Naked City" etc. before shifting to Europe to escape the Hollywood witch hunts, founding a production company with Peter O'Toole (Keep Films) and producing such wonders as "Under Milk Wood", "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England", "Lord Jim" and "What's New Pussycat" Joyce Gates was an actress in various small, often uncredited, roles in movies like "Kismet", and their daughter Joan is a notable journalist, writer, and all round renaissance woman by all accounts; at one point the London correspondent for Warhol's "Interview" magazine, the only American to have been editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl.", later published in "The Pump House Gang." She started studying acting in 2002, and appeared in Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia", later writing about the experience of auditioning for Ephron. She fell from grace after Vogue published a decidedly lightweight and grievously ill timed interview with Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. Frankly they seem fascinating, but basically the point is that Steinbeck knew them very well, and liked them, and inscribed his sad, slow, strange, dust-bowl novel to them. A really gorgeous and interesting association copy of an undeniably great book.

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