James Allen St. John, born on October 1, 1872, was an American author, artist, and illustrator renowned for his pioneering contributions to the world of fantasy art. His career began in earnest in 1898, after studying under notable artists at the Art Students League of New York. St. John's early work included a commercial relationship with the New York Herald, but it was his time in Paris at the Académie Julian between 1906 and 1908 that further honed his artistic prowess. Eventually settling in Chicago around 1912, he became a prominent figure at the Tree Studios art colony, where he lived until his death.

St. John is perhaps best remembered for his iconic illustrations for the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, bringing to life the thrilling adventures of Tarzan and John Carter of Barsoom. His work for the publisher A.C. McClurg & Co., especially the self-written and illustrated “The Face in the Pool” in 1905, marked a significant milestone in his career. Beyond his illustrations, St. John imparted his knowledge as an educator at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art, influencing a generation of artists, including the likes of Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta. His legacy as “The Godfather of Modern Fantasy Art” endures, with his art continuing to inspire and captivate fans of the genre. St. John passed away on May 23, 1957, leaving behind a rich tapestry of fantastical imagery that transcends time. [Sources: Wikipedia and SF Encyclopedia]

Broomhill Oxfam, Sheffield

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.

Cover by Boris Artzybasheff (25 May 1899 - 16 July 1965). A Sun Dial Mystery, 1940

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.

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...

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))

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.

“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]

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)

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.

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.

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 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.

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…

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

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

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.

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)

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 ….

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

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 ….

Designed by E. McKnight Kauffer

Modern Library, 1934

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).

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.

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

The Hobbit

Dust Jacket Tribute not quite finshed

This book contains a history and anthology of science fiction in the popular magazines from 1891 to 1911. The year 1891 ushered in a "golden age" of magazines. Continuing up to the onset of World War I, this period saw an unparalleled flourishing of high quality, general interest magazines at a price nearly everybody could afford. Science fiction stories played a crucial role in the success of these magazines, and, not surprisingly, within the pages of "The Strand," "Pearson's Magazine, "The Blue Book," "Hampton's Magazine," "The Argosy," "The Red Book,"The Black Cat," and similar publications can be found some of the finest treasures of science fiction writing.

1947; English Saga by Arthur Bryant. With dust Jacket.

Set on the island of Ponape, full of ruins from ancient civilizations, “The Moon Pool” chronicles the adventures of a party of explorers who discover a previously unknown underground world full of super-scientific wonders and strange beings who populated earth long before us. From the depths of this world, the party unwittingly unleashes the Dweller, a monstrous terror that threatens the islands of the South Pacific. It is also a tale of love, self-sacrifice, deception and greed.

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Penguin Classics L10, 1954

Roundel Illustration: William Grimmond

Back: List of Greek and Latin translations available in Penguin Classics

Jacket design uncredited. Macmillan & Co Ltd hardcover (1968).

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.

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.

Guidelines dust jacket

Designed by H.J. Hanschel (?)

Tower Books T-335, 1944

“Bloodstar” is an adaptation of Robert E.Howard’s original short story “The Valley of the Worm,” which appeared for the first time in Weird Tales (Feb. 1934). It is a post-apocalyptic sword and sorcery tale of the life of a mythical hero and his heritage. It combines Greek and Norse mythologies with science fiction and presents a fantastic array of repulsive-looking monsters, incredibly muscled heroes and impossibly big-busted maidens (a Richard Corben specialty). It is illustrated in black and white in mixed media in startlingly three-dimensional looking images. Corben took about nine months to complete the artwork, and according to Berni Wrightson, he painted the cover in less than 24 hours while Wrightson visited him in Kansas City.

Some writers consider “Bloodstar” to be the most successful adaptation of a Robert E. Howard story. It is possibly the first graphic novel to call itself a “graphic novel” in print (in its introduction and dust jacket) and it was first published in 1976 by The Morning Star Press in a limited edition. [Source: Wikipedia]

Johnny Smith is an ordinary young man with a talent for teaching and a new girl. As he takes Sarah to a carnival, life looks good. But a few hours later an accident slams Johnny Smith into a coma that will last four and half years, and a lot can change in four and a half years.

When Johnny wakes up, his girl, his career, and his youth are gone. But the tragedy of his loss is nothing compared to the horror of his gain. For Johnny Smith can now scan the minds, the pasts, and the futures of certain others through a single touch. It is a gift he does not want and a fate he cannot escape.

King's creepy story was the basis of a 1983 movie starring the equally creepy Christopher Walken.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTeRM_8egk

This book collects 22 of Ray Bradbury’s tales that first appeared in The New Yorker, Collier’s, the Saturday Evening Post, Mademoiselle, the American Mercury and other magazines. They run the gamut from fantasy and witchcraft to lost childhood and nostalgia.

"CONSIGNMENT: painting, print, video"

Ibbitson and King

hardback 80pp

ISBN 978-0-9563567-2-7

[2011]

www.blurb.co.uk/b/2530939-consignment

Graham Greene: The man within.

With dustjacket.

Bantam 1948.

A complete set of the Letters of Virginia Woolf, published by the Hogarth Press, which is the edition I prefer. First edition, fine condition and with dustjackets. One could not ask for better. Also, I was able to find them in an Australian bookstore, so did not have to pay a weighty price in overseas postage.

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

“Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote four westerns over his career. “The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County” was first published in Thrilling Adventures (March, April, May, 1940) as "The Terrible Tenderfoot." There were two other working titles "That Damn Dude" and "The Brass Heart." Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. published the first book edition in September 1940. The dust jacket and interior illustrations were done by the author's son, John Coleman Burroughs.” [The quote is from a summary by David Bruce Bozarth].

A chapter-by-chapter summary may be found at the ERB Summary Project website:

www.erblist.com/erblist/deputysumm.html