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This book from The Viking Press is one of the 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.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
Here is the British pop group "The Shadows" with their 1961 tribute called "Kon-Tiki" :
Kon-Tiki: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrISegvqpU
Jan Benes, a brilliant refugee scientist, is the victim of an attempted assassination and lies in a coma with a potentially fatal blood clot in his brain. Locked in his mind is a secret of vital importance. The urgency of saving him is overwhelming, yet conventional surgery would inevitably destroy his mental powers if not precipitate his death.
The new secret process of miniaturization -- whereby a whole army could conceivably be placed in a matchbox and sent anywhere in the world -- offers a chance of saving Dr. Benes. In spite of the enormous hazards involved, the scientists in charge of the process decide to miniaturize a team of doctors and technicians with all their equipment, including a small submarine, and inject them into Benes's circulatory system to attack and destroy the blood clot from the inside.
American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote this novelization based on an original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby and on a screenplay by Harry Kleiner. Twentieth Century Fox released the movie version based on Kleiner's screenplay in 1966 and it starred Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence.
In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck. A mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one.
In “Lost Moon,” Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger tell the full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home.
As the hours tick away, engineers on Earth search desperately for solutions. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA’s finest hour. “Lost Moon” was the basis for the 1995 movie “Apollo 13” directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.
H. H. Munro - The She-Wolf and Other Stories
(A Saki Sampler)
Bantam 143 (DJ), 1948
Cover Artist: Norbert James ("Bert") Lannon
This Bantam issue from 1948 is a Superior Reprint (M656, 1945) with a Bantam dust jacket. There are no Bantam logos or insignias on the dust jacket, but the words "A Bantam Book" appear on the back flap of the dust jacket.
The title page with the Tiki symbol.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
An epic drifting expedition.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, in 1947, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
A historical perspective of the Kon-Tiki Expedition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki
"My idea of a good picture," writes Andy Warhol, "is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous." This is a book of candid photos and profiles of Andy Warhol's friends, which include many icons of the sixties and seventies. They are caught at moments when only Andy Warhol could catch them.
Published in September 1952 and often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, “East of Eden” brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. The novel was originally addressed to Steinbeck's young sons, Thom and John (then 6½ and 4½ years old, respectively). Steinbeck wanted to describe the Salinas Valley for them in detail: the sights, sounds, smells, and colors. The Hamilton family in the novel is said to be based on the real-life family of Samuel Hamilton, Steinbeck's maternal grandfather.
A 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan is loosely based on the second half of Steinbeck’s novel. It is about a wayward young man played by James Dean in his first major screen role who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the Southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the story spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the fictional Albertian Order of Leibowitz take up the mission of preserving the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the day the outside world is again ready for it.
“Considered one of the classics of science fiction, ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’ has never been out of print and has seen over 25 reprints and editions. Appealing to mainstream and genre critics and readers alike, it won the 1961 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel.” [Source: Wikipedia]
John Carter of Mars is the eleventh and final book in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is not actually a novel but rather a collection of two John Carter of Mars stories.
The first story was originally published in 1940 by Whitman as a Better Little Book entitled John Carter of Mars. Although credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, it was written (and illustrated) by his son, John Coleman Burroughs and was later expanded and re-published in Amazing Stories as "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", the name it goes under in the collection.
The second story, "Skeleton Men of Jupiter", was first published in Amazing Stories in 1943. Intended as the first in a series of novelettes to be later collected in book form, in the fashion of Llana of Gathol, it ends with the plot unresolved, and the intended sequels were never written. Several other writers have written pastiche endings for the story.
The first edition of John Carter of Mars (a title that Burroughs never actually used for any book in the Barsoom series) was published in 1964 by Canaveral Press, fourteen years after Burroughs's death.
[Source: Wikipedia]
TITLE: Best of Corwainer Smith
AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-1966
TYPE: hardbound Collection
PUBLISHER: Nelson Doubleday/SFBC [Science Fiction Book Club]
COVER PRICE: none, sold only through Book Club
ISBN:
PAGES: 342
PUB DATE: July 1975
EDITION: 1st publication, therefore SFBC is true 1st edition
COPYRIGHT:
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
·NOTATION:
oBook club edition with no statement of edition or printing on the copyright page. First edition according to Currey. The paperback edition would not appear for two months from Ballantine.
oNo stated date of publication. Date given here taken from the July 1975 announcement flyer of The Science Fiction Book Club.
oThe "Nelson Doubleday" imprint indicates an original publication exclusive to book club members.
o"Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front inside flap of the dustjacket.
o"1180" printed at the bottom of the back inside flap pf the dustjacket.
oGutter code "24 R" on page 341 indicates a printing in early June, 1975. A later printing had gutter code "H 17" (April, 1977) CR note: my copy had gutter code of 24R on page 337.
oCover and title page credit: "Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by J. J. Pierce".
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INDEX: 0231 - Best of Corwainer Smith hb - 11 CS - IFB
CONTENTS:
·[vii] • The Instrumentality of Mankind (timeline) • essay by John J. Pierce (aka Timeline from The Instrumentality of Mankind) [as by J. J. Pierce ]
·1 • Cordwainer Smith: The Shaper of Myths • essay by John J. Pierce [as by J. J. Pierce ]
·9 • Scanners Live in Vain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1950) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·43 • The Lady Who Sailed the Soul • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1960) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·67 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·83 • The Burning of the Brain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1958) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·93 • Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·101 • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1964) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·117 • The Dead Lady of Clown Town • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1964) • novella by Cordwainer Smith
·193 • Under Old Earth • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1966) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·235 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·259 • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·287 • The Ballad of Lost C'Mell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·307 • A Planet Named Shayol • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO ENTRY: indicates specific information not available from book.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World
Penguin Books 100
Published 1937 (in two volumes); reprinted in 1948 in one volume; 1st printing
Cover Design: Edward Young
Cubiertas de libros diseñadas por Aleksandr Rodchenko.
Centro: Portada del libro "En Total" de Serguei Tretiakov 1924. Litografía 23,3*15,8 cm
Arriba derecha: Sobrecubierta para el libro de poseía El Orador de Serguei Tretiakov 1924. Impresion Tipográfica. The museum of Modern Art, Nueva York. Donación de The Judith Rothshcild Foundtation
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Dustjackets of Books designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko.
Center: Bookcover "In total" of Serguei Tretiakov 1924. Litograph 23,3*15,8 cm
Top Right : Dustjacket of the poetry book " Speaker" by Sergei Tretsakov.
Typographical print. The museum of Modern Art, Nueva York. Donation from The Judith Rothshcild Foundtation
This is a nonfiction title from the renowned crime writer, a revised version of his Master’s thesis in which he discusses the rise of the immobilized hero in modern fiction. Willeford traces its popularity from Dostoevsky’s “Underground Man” to the bestselling novels of Beckett, Bellow, Kafka, Camus, and many others. Charles Willeford is the author of fourteen novels, including “Miami Blues” and the Sgt. Hoke Moseley series.
Jacket Design by Riki Levinson.
Immanuel Velikovsky (1895 - 1979) was a Russian-Jewish independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller “Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. He contends that more than once within historic times the planets of our solar system ran amok and caused enormous cataclysms. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” proposed that around the 15th century BCE, Venus was ejected from Jupiter as a comet or comet-like object, passed near Earth (an actual collision is not mentioned). The object changed Earth's orbit and axial inclination, causing innumerable catastrophes which were mentioned in early mythologies and religions around the world. Fifty-two years later, it passed close by again, stopping the Earth's rotation for a while and causing more catastrophes. Then, in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, Mars (itself displaced by Venus) made close approaches to the Earth; this incident caused a new round of disturbances and disasters. After that, the current "celestial order" was established. The courses of the planets stabilized over the centuries and Venus gradually became a "normal" planet.
Velikovsky arrived at these proposals using a methodology which would today be called comparative mythology – he looked for concordances in myths and written history of unconnected cultures across the world, following a literal reading of their accounts of the exploits of planetary deities. In this book, he argues on the basis of ancient cosmological myths from places as disparate as India and China, Greece and Rome, Assyria and Sumer. For example, ancient Greek mythology asserts that the goddess Athena sprang from the head of Zeus. Velikovsky identifies Zeus (whose Roman counterpart was the god Jupiter) with the planet Jupiter. Velikovsky identifies Athena (the Roman Minerva) with the planet Venus. This myth, along with others from ancient Egypt, Israel, Mexico, etc., is used to support the claim that "Venus was expelled as a comet and then changed to a planet after contact with a number of members of our solar system."
The plausibility of the theory was summarily rejected by the physics community, as the cosmic chain of events proposed by Velikovsky contradicts the basic laws of physics. By 1974, the controversy surrounding Velikovsky's work had reached the point where the American Association for the Advancement of Science felt obliged to address the situation, as they had previously done in relation to UFOs, and devoted a scientific meeting to Velikovsky. The meeting featured, among others, Velikovsky himself and Carl Sagan. Sagan gave a critique of Velikovsky's ideas and attacked most of the assumptions made in “Worlds in Collision.” [Source: Wikipedia]
If anybody says that Japan scrapped a promotional tie-in to the third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action movie because it was a box-office failure, don't believe them.
The TMNT brand was probably at its peak popularity in the Japan by the time the movie came out, and it received multiple adaptations in manga, including the one advertised here published by Dengeki Comics.
This ad also promotes the first nine volumes of Dengeki cartoon episode adaptations. Front and back sides of the flyer are shown here in a composite image.
Full dustjacket cover scan for the Dengeki manga adaptation for the 3rd movie here:
www.flickr.com/photos/22047800@N07/50192795391/in/album-7...
A direct scan of a very shabby dust jacket from a book, "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be," (1956) by the prolific nature/adventure Canadian writer, Farley Mowat, known best for "Never Cry Wolf".
This elegant advertisement is for a Grosset & Dunlap Publishers edition of Shakespeare's 34 plays and all of his sonnets.
Keith Davenport, the author's brother.
The Voyage of the Waltzing Matilda by Philip Davenport 1953.
The newly-wed Philip and Roz Davenport, sailed around a major part of the World in a small 46’ Bermudian Cutter with a 53’ mast, leaving Sydney Harbour on October 1950. The cutter had just been constructed in Tasmania for the three adventurous Sydney brothers: Jack, Philip and Keith Davenport, who had all seen service as bomber pilots during World War 2 with the Royal Australian Air Force. Accompanying the 32 year-old Philip, and his wife Roz, was his brother, Keith and a sailing friend, Don Brown.
The Waltzing Matilda, named after a popular Australian folk song, visited New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil along the way before finishing in London in late 1951.
Published by Hutchison of London. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 232 pages 14cm x 22cm.
trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18517571 Roz Davenport’s interview about the journey from the (Sydney) Sunday Herald 30th November 1952.
Philip Davenport’s account of his crash, capture and incarceration in a Gestapo prison in Norway in 1945:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/51/a3964151.s...
The older brother, Wing-Commander Jack Davenport, who helped fund and prepare the Waltzing Matilda, had a distinguished Air Force career, and won the DSO for his command of 455 Squadron.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1945)
www.amazon.com/Jack-Davenport-ebook/dp/B0042JSPOI This biography also includes some details of the Air Force action of his brothers Philip and Keith.
He followed the military career with an equally distinguished business career, including directorship of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL Co).
“John Masters’ first story of modern India, following his three widely read and widely hailed historical novels, is likely to be his most successful book. It is a story of the ebb and flow of violence, misunderstanding, and terror preceding the coming of Indian independence, and it adds a new dimension of immediate reality to the author’s established reputation for narrative and scenic brilliance.
“Few readers will forget the beautiful, tragic Anglo-Indian, Victoria Jones, daughter of two heritages and two bloods, or the three men who loved her – Patrick Taylor, whose mixed blood matched her own; Colonel Rodney Savage, whose love offered one solution to her dilemma; and the Sikh Ranjit, who offered a different answer altogether. Primarily “Bhowani Junction” is the drama of these men and this woman, but beyond this it is packed with unforgettable incidents and characters. One of John Masters’ most striking gifts is the power to evoke the sight and smell of India through the use of the exciting scene: a train thundering through the night toward an ambush, a desperate search through the dark jungle for a Communist terrorist, quiet moments beside a cool mountain stream, and a well-laid plot that boomeranged.
“In this dramatic story of Indians, Anglo-Indians, and British torn and twisted by desperate conflicts of race, religion, and personality, the author has written a long and full-bodied novel of a nation and its people at the point of crisis. It is a major achievement by an author whose popularity has grown with each succeeding book.” [From the text on the dustjacket]
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Most “movie tie-ins” are reprints, usually photoplay editions or mass market paperbacks, not original first editions. This book is a true first edition of the novel published by Viking Press in 1954.
Accompanying the book is a publisher-issued promotional band (wraparound “belly band”) printed in bright yellow, advertising MGM’s 1956 motion picture adaptation starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger. The band is a separate item, wrapped around the dustjacket, preserving the original jacket while simultaneously linking the book to its film release. Also included is a bookmark featuring an ad for the movie, an ephemeral piece seldom retained by readers.
While photoplay editions and paperback tie-ins are common, publisher-supplied bands and advertising inserts converting a first edition into a movie tie-in are rare.
The book is the first paperback edition published in September, 1945. Pocket Books added a dust jacket with the photo cover when the motion picture was released in 1949.
What happens when spring comes to an old antique dealer who loses everything in the depression of 1929 except a huge bed, a young violinist, a prostitute, and the president of a defunct bank, who share an old tool shed in Central Park.
Published by Oswald Wolff,London, 1962. Stories related by migrants at the Marienfelde reception camp which was right on the border of the GDR at the south end of West Berlin. An old Berlin map shows another reception camp,but not this one, at Spandauerstr, Staaken (Fluchtlingsheim).
The author was born in Potsdam according to the dustjacket, and her husband's paper mill was dismantled in the SMAD and then rebuilt. Material was gathered in 1959 for this book, published in Germany in 1960 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koeln. . This english edition 1962, printed by the Garden City Press, Letchworth.
edited by LeRoy Gorman.
Aylmer, Proof Press, [summer?] 1997. of an edition totalling 2oo, about 5o copies of the 4 volumes in a set in handmade covers.
4 volumes as described below bound with beige rubber bands to 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 plain white mayfair card wrappers with 1-7/8 strip as spine stiffener, elastics threaded through, in white xerographic bond dustjacket with variably-sized flaps, covers & spine printed black photocopy, with laid in 3-7/16 x 4-5/16 white xerographic bond leaflet, 4 pp printed black photocopy, laid in.
the 4 volumes are:
a) a haiku alphabet in celebration of spring for 21 may 1994. 4-3/16 x 5-1/2, 8 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 32 pp & stapled twice into white mayfair card wrappers, all except inside covers printed black photocopy with cobalt rubberstamp addition to front cover;
b) a haiku alphabet in celebration of summer for 13 july 1995. 4-1/8 x 5-1/2, 9 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 36 pp & stapled twice into white mayfair card wrappers, all except inside covers printed black photocopy with blue rubberstamp addition to front cover;
c) a haiku alphabet in celebration of fall for [september?] 1996. 4 x 5-1/2, 9 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 36 pp & stapled twice into white mayfair card wrappers, all except inside covers printed black photocopy with yeloow/red rubberstamp addition to front cover;
d) a haiku alphabet in celebration of winter for 16 may 1997. 4-3/16 x 5-1/2, 9 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 36 pp & stapled twice into white mayfair card wrappers, all except inside covers printed black photocopy with green rubberstamp addition to front cover.
199 contributors ID'd:
Suezan Aikins, Nasira Alma, Eric Amann, W.S.Apted, Holly Arrow, Ann Atwood, Nick Avis, David Aylward, Winona Baker, Jerry Ball, Johnny Baranski, Eunice D.Barnes, Herb Barrett, Matsuo Basho, Shant Basmajian, Louise Beaven, Guy R.Beining, Betty Kendell Bennett, Margaret Bennett, Marianne Bluger, Bob Boldman, Janice M.Bostok, Dawnold Brackett, Peter Brady, Chuck Brickley, Beatrice Brissman, Eunice D.Brooks, Randy Brooks, Catherine M.Buckaway, Brian Burch, Tom Clausen, David Cobb, Carlos Colon, Denise Coney, Robert Craig, Joyce Walker Currier, jwcurry, Proxade Davis, Raffael De Gruttola, Carrow DeVries, Melissa Dixon, Richard Doiron, Betty Drevniok, Michael Dudley, M.B.Duggan, Andre Duhaime, Marje A.Dyck, Percy Elsee, Mary Thomas Eulberg, Greg Evason, Dee Evetts, Chris Faiers, Glenda Fawkes, Seaton Findlay, Louise Fletcher, Muriel Ford, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Marco Fraticelli, B.Stephen Freedberg, Sandra Fuhringer, D.Claire Gallagher, Frederick Gasser, Pauline Gauthier, Gary Gay, Alan Gettis, LeRoy Gorman, Bob Grumman, J.W.Hackett, Ty Hadman, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Joanne Harris, Penny Harter, Peggy Heinrich, Doris Heitmeyer, William J.Higginson, Anna Holly, Wharton Hood, Kim Horne, Gary Hotham, Dorothy Howard, Clement Hoyt, Marshall Hryciuk, Evelyn Tooley Hunt, G.A.Huth, Kobayashi Isaa, Peter Jaeger, Beth Jankola, Foster Jewell, Brian David Johnston, Daniel Jones, Kevin Jones, Hans Jongman, Jean Jorgensen, Jim Kacian, Akira Kawano, Jack Kerouac, M.Mettner, Jerry Kilbride, Gunther Klinge, Anita Krumins, Marlene L'Abbé, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, David E.LeCount, Kenneth C.Leibman, Leatrice Lifshitz, Elena Lindsay, Natthew Louviere, Martin Lucas, Peggy Willis Lyles, [--?--] Makiko, Tomislav Maretic, John Martone, R.C.Matsuo-Allard, Cary D.McAllister, Michael McClintock, Beverly McDougald, Irene Gross McGuire, Anne McKay, Donald McLeod, Robert Melancon, Bruce Meyer, Sue Mill, James M.Moir, Marianna Monaco, Carol Montgomery, Lenard D.Moore, Joanne Morcom, [--?--] Moritake, Marlene Mountain, Patricia Neubauer, bpNichol, Nika [--?--], Tomi Nishimura, Joe Nutt, Brent Partridge, Mary Partridge, Bill Pauly, Alan Pizzarelli, Francine Porad, Nancy Prasad, Claire Pratt, George Ralph, Jane Reichhold, Werner Reichhold, J.B.Reynolds, Ronald Rice, Albert Ripperger, Frank Robinson, Emily Romano, Raymond Roseliep, Bruce Ross, Alexis Rotella, Hal Roth, Timothy Russell, Elizabeth Saint Jacques, Sukeo Sameshima, Margaret Saunders, Grant Savage, Pearl Schuck, Jeff Seffinga, John Sheirer, Conrad M.Sienkiewicz, Dorothy Cameron Smith, Karen Sohne, Sabine Sommerkamp, Keith Southward, Robert Spiess, Ruby Spriggs, Roberta Stewart, Ebba Story, Judith Anderson Stuart, Dave Sutter, George Swede, Wally Swist, Kenneth Tanemura, Richard Tice, Tom Tico, Anna Vakar, Cor Van Den Heuvel, Zinovy Vayman, Lorraine Vernon, Jocelyne Villeneuve, Anita Virgil, Nicholas A.Virgilio, Carol Scott Wainright, Phyllis Walsh, Michael Dylan Welch, Gail Whitter, Paul O.Williams, Rod Willmot, John Wills, Jeffrey Winke, Sheila Wood, Ruth Yarrow, Rich Youmans, Sheldon Young, Virginia Brady Young, Arizona Zipper.
Nichol contributes to a haiku alphabet in celebration of fall:
i) "2 leaves touch (poem, 2 lines; quoted in full in (ii) below)
also includes:
ii) "L LlL is for leaves,", by LeRoy Gorman (prose; links Nichol's (i) above with a poem by Bob Grumman)
Final Major Project
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complete guidelines for the rebrand of Qatar Airways.
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Grey board cover, title on spine
Agatha Christie book spines.Murder on the Orient Express is a first edition, with a replica dustjacket. I paid 20p for this book in a charity shop in Bangor Wales in 1997, Probably my best ever buy,
edited by Arthur Cravan.
Toronto, Letters Bookshop, 14 august 1997. 14 unique numbered copies.
4-1/2 x 6 x 4-5/8, this copy with 78 fascicules in handmade zephyr antique laid (found printed black offset) covered board box (only nr.32 missing, with 14 variants)):
1. BEFORE DAWN, by Arthur Cravan; 14 august 1985, 112 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-3/16 x 5-3/8, 8 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 32 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset & numbered in black pencil inside front cover, in 4-3/16 x 5-1/2 series ad wrapper (UNEEDA) by Cravan, outside covers only printed black offset.
2. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DOCTOR BETHUNE, by Fraser Sutherland; 23 january 1986, 149 copies (states 1oo); 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 8 sheets white bond side-stapled twice, all printed black offset.
2. ____ unstated 2nd edition, 31 january 1986, 1o5 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
3. PISSED, by [Daniel] Jones; 5 march 1986, 1oo copies numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
4. happy CRISIS, by Geordie McDonald; 5 march 1986, 11o copies numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-3/8, 2 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset.
4. ____ of 11o copies, 1/27 signed in red ballpoint inside front cover.
5. the poetry of our age, by David McFadden; 22 april 1986, 1o8 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
6. STRANGE TRAINS, by Kate Van Dusen; 22 april 1986, 1o5 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
7. EAT THIS, by Tim Dunn; 22 april 1986, 111 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 8 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 32 pp in selfwrappers, all, except rear cover printed black offset.
8. DEAD MAN'S SHOES, by Doug Fetherling; 22 april 1986, 117 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 2 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset.
9. 8 Lines on/of/as H's + 2 Alpha pairings, by bpNichol; 22 april 1986, 96 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil on verso of title page; 4-1/8 x 5-1/4, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except inside covers printed black offset.
9. ____ 2nd edition, 15 april 1994, 43 copies numbered in yellow marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets peacock blue wove folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except inside front cover printed black photocopy.
[1oa]. LET LITERATURE LANGUAGE, by Arthur Cravan; 27 may 1986, 5o copies; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, single sheet white bond folded twice & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, top folds uncut, all printed black offset.
[10b]. JUNK LiNE, by Arthur Cravan; 27 may 1986, 5o copies; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, single sheet white bond folded twice & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, top folds uncut, all printed black offset.
11. toivonen & cresto AND OTHER POEMS, by Martin Gray; 14 july 1986, 1o6 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset.
12. THE SOCK EXCHANGE, by Vic D'Or; 14 july 1986, 92 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset.
13. THE ANTI SELF, by Ron Gillespie; 14 july 1986, 124 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-3/8, 2 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
13. ____ 2nd edition, 19 july 1986, 13 copies numbered in red marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
13. ____ 3rd edition, 1o february 1994, 27 copies (states 26) lettered in red marker & signed in black marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
14. LONGER SONG ABOUT A LITTLE MACHINE, by Brian Brett; 15 july 1986, 1o5 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-1/4, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset.
15. on the TAKE, by James Loverde; 14 july 1986, 125 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset.
16. rImbAud'S twISted baLLS, by John Oughton; 14 july 1986, 12o copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-3/8, 2 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black offset. includes a translation of Antonin Artaud.
17. STRIPS, by Brian Purdy; 14 july 1986, 119 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
18. sinillogical translations volume seven THE SINO-ANDALUSIAN TRANSLATIONS, by jwcurry & Mark Laba; 14 july 1986, 119 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 4 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset.
19. LITERATURE DEPOSIT, by Gerry Gilbert; 3 july 1987, 1oo copies numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 5-1/2 x 4-1/4, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded at top & sewn pink in 2 double stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
2o. WHORE WAR I, by Maureen Paxton; 5 july 1987, 99 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn pink in 2 double stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
21. SIX MORE, by August Kleinzahler; 9 july 1987, 97 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 3 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn burgundy in 2 double stitches to 12 pp in selfwrappers, all except both rear covers printed black photocopy.
22. THIRTEEN TALES OF LOVE, by Linda Rivers; 7 july 1987, 1oo copies numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn pink in 2 double stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
23. art, by Arthur Cravan; 1o july 1987, 25 copies numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 16 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 64 pp & sewn black in 2 stitches in 4 signatures of 4 sheets each, glued into plain 4 x 5-1/2 olive green laid endpapers & 8-1/2 x 11 white xerographic bond sheet folded twice as covers, all except back covers printed black photocopy, in 6-1/2 x 5 white bond envelope with 2-3/8" triangular gummed flap, outside flap only printed black typescript.
24. SHIT, by John Riddell; 15 march 199o, 1oo copies numbered in red marker at colophon rear; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 88 sheets white xerographic bond perfectbound into plain white rectoclaycoat wrappers, all except 7 pp (iv, viii, xii, last 2 leaves) printed black photocopy with 3-1/2 x 4 white textured toilet paper colophon leaf printed black typescript with unique brown ink smear tipped at corners to recto of last leaf, in white xerographic bond dustjacket with 2-5/8" flaps, all outsides printed black photocopy; cover graphic by Chester Brown, jacket blurbs by Arthur Cravan.in white xerographic bond
25. TIPS from the poets' quarter, by Arthur Cravan; 31 july 1987, 32 copies numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 8 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn tan in 2 double stitches to 32 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy. with a contribution by bpNichol.
26. THINGTALK, by Arthur Cravan; 23 september 1987, 27 copies numbered black typescript inside front cover, issued as Handjobbie 1; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, single sheet white xerographic bond folded to 8 pp & sewn grey in 2 double stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black typescript.
27. A Signature Of Poetry, by Charles Bukowski; 2nd edition, 29 september 1987, 66 copies numbered in red marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 6 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 24 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy. illustrations unID'd.
28. CCMC with Steve McCaffery (Sketching 2), by bpNichol; 17 march 1988, 177 copies (states 2oo) numbered in red marker verso title page; 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except inside & rear covers printed black photocopy.
29. BROKEN LIES, by Paul Haines; 2o april 1988, 114 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
3o. a fake novel about the life of arthur rimbaud, by Jack Spicer; 8 october 1988, 3o copies numbered in red marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 8 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 32 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
31. The Mysteries of SAM – Explained – Expose An Unexpurgated Biography, by Richard Shoe; 8 october 1988, 23 copies; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 doublestitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
[32: missing: the man with seven toes, by Michael Ondaatje]
33. MY FAIR LADY, by Peter Stevens; 19 september 1989, 1o7 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black pencil inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets ivory bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers,all except rear cover printed black photocopy. cover by Arthur Cravan.
34. THE NEMIS WHO LOST HIS FUR, by Amber Fritz-Drumbolis; 7 march 199o, 97 copies; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets ivory bond folded & sewn white in 2 doublestitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy. afterword by Nicky Drumbolis.
35.wash your pictures away from you as far as you can, by Daniel F.Bradley; 26 september 1989, 97 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets whte xerographic bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
36: jean nicolas arthur rimbaud, by Arthur Cravan; 2nd edition, 31 october 1991, 1o3 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
37. the i love lucy manuscript, by Marshall Hryciuk; 9 november 1992, 94 copies (states 1oo) numbered in black ink inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 6 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 24 pp in selfwrappers, all except inside front cover printed black photocopy; cover graphic by Susan Fritz.
38. DWINDLES OF CUNT AN EPIC HYSTEREC TOMY IN TWO FITS, by Arthur Cravan; 9 february 1993, 1o5 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy with red ink addition to front cover.
39. THE ALL NEWS LIFE, by Robert Flanagan; 2 april 1993, 1o5 copies numbered in red marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets filamented grey Classic Laid folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches, all printed black photocopy. with 2 cover & 2 interior graphics by Maureen Paxton.
4o. An Alphabet of Lipograms, by Victor Coleman; 2nd edition, 17 march 1993, 11o (states 1oo) copies numbered in lime marker on rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets tan Strathmore Writing folded together twice & sewn cream in 2 double stitches, inside sheet cut at top to yield 8 pp in doubled cover, all except inside front cover & cover fold-ins printed black laser.
41. A TASTE, by P.Cob; 23 april 1993, 1oo copies numbered in red ink inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets grey bond folded & sewn grey to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
42. FAKE NOVEL, by Arthur Cravan; 2nd edition, 8 april 1993, 1o5 copies (states 1oo) numbered in lime marker inside front cover; 5-1/2 x 4-1/4, 6 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 24 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
43. the poverty of breathing, by Ron Giii; 24 march 1993, 1o6 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 5 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 double stitches to 2o pp in selfwrappers, all except p.vi & rear cover printed black photocopy.
43. ____ variant, the cover printed 2-up with differing tears to the title cut.
44. ECOLOGICODDLE, by jwcurry; 8 january 1994, 1o1 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy. rear cover photo by Lance LaRocque.
45. OH NO ... A SELECTION FROM THE WORDS OF, by John Laughlin; 9 january 1994, 1o5 copies (states 1oo) numbered in purple rubberstamp inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
46. the backwards HAT theatre a Portuguese tour of the impulse, by Ron Giii; 12 march 1994, 124 copies of 15o numbered in lime marker inside front cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.
46. ____ 26 copies of 15o lettered in purple rubberstamp & signed in black ink inside front cover.
47. ALVIN KARPIS Public Enemy Number One, by Ted Plantos; 13 march 1994, 128 copies of a stated 15o numbered in lime marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
47. ____ 26 copies of a stated 15o lettered in purple rubberstamp & signed in olive green ink inside rear cover.
48. ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF EZRA POUND | SOBRE UNA FOTOGRAFÍA DE EZRA POUND, by Ludwig Zeller, with facing translation by A.F.Moritz; 21 april 1994, 225 copies (of a stated 25o) numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded & sewn cream in 2 stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except cover versos & last page printed black laser.
48. ____ 26 copies with plain purple wove endpapers, lettered in red marker & signed in black ink by author & translator inside rear cover.
49. back lane letters, by bpNichol; 2nd edition, revised, 28 april 1994, 2oo copies numbered in purple rubberstamp inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 8 sheets grey bond folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 32 pp in selfwrappers, all except cover versos & last page printed black photocopy.
(49). IRATA, by Arthur Cravan; 17 may 1994, 5o copies numbered in purple rubberstamp rear cover issued as Snore Comix 8; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, single sheet grey bond folded to 4 pp leaflet, all printed black photocopy with blue rubberstamp addition to front cover. issued as an errata leaf to back lane letters.
5o. RINDCITE a bio GRAFT of the enigmatic littleman DfB, by Arthur Cravan; 1 september 1994, 5o copies numbered in purple rubberstamp inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 7 sheets white xerographic bond folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 28 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy. photography unacknowledged possibly by John Harley(?).
51. A HUNDRED THOUSAND GOODBYES, by C.F.Kennedy; 2nd edition, 25 june 1994, 1o1 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red ink inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets green-flecked & filamented tan wove folded & sewn cream in 2 stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black photocopy.
52. RUNAWAY BOOK, by Antje Meyer-Erlach; 27 june 1994, 1oo copies numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded with plain russet kraft endpapers & sewn white in 2 stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except lefthand centerpage & rear cover printed black photocopy with red addition to front cover.
53. MY MOTHER LOVED TO DANCE THE TANGO, by Leonard Gasparini; 13 september 1994, 1o6 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker at colophon rear; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded & sewn cream in 2 stitches to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except 5 pp (inside front cover, [12], last page & both rear covers) printed black laser.
54. COVERED, by Alice Burdick; 11 november 1994, 132 copies (of a stated 15o) numbered in red marker on last page; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded & sewn pink in 2 stitches into cherry byronic brocade card wrappers with deckled leading edge to front cover, all interiors except p.2 printed black laser with green foamstamp addition to title page, front cover only printed blue foamstamp.
54. ____ 26 copies lettered in red marker & signed in black pencil at colophon.
55. WALK TO THE NEXT TOWN an excerpt from the longer sequence Told to Me, by Fred Gaysek; 11 november 1994, 1o3 copies (states 1oo) numbered in turquoise ink on last page; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 3 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded with plain grey coarsewove endpapers to 12 pp in selfwrappers, all interiors & front cover only printed black photocopy.
56. BEYOND THE RANGE OF STANDARD SELECTED WORKS, by Peggy Lefler; 32 copies numbered in red ink holograph at rear colophon. 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 16 sheets white xerographic bond & 4 sheets white plainfield folded to 8o pp in 5 signatures (2 plainfield sheets in each of 3rd & 4th), sewn white in 2 stitches & glued into plain purple Momi Kon endpapers & white Cornwall card wrappers printed yellow, red & purple rubberstamp front cover only with deep green rubberstamp wrapping onto spine, all white interiors printed black photocopy except 8 pp in 4-colour process photocopy & one in Lefler's black pencil holograph.
57. RAVENS & other poems, by George Miller; 12 december 1994, 118 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded twice together & sewn cream in 2 stitches, inside sheet cut at top to yield 8 pp in doubled selfwrappers, all interiors & cover rectos only printed black photocopy.
57. ____ 1/16 variants with vertical grain to the paper.
58. A MEMORIAL, by Fraser Sutherland; 12 december 1994, 1o7 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red ink inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded & sewn cream in 2 stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except 2nd leaf (printed both sides) printed black offset rectos only.
[--]. 1995 smallpress bookfair directory, edited by Arthur Cravan; 27 may 1995, 387 copies issued as List 99; 4-3/8 x 5-1/2, 24 sheets ivory bond perfectbound into filamented ivory heavy bond wrappers,all except inside covers printed offset, interiors in green in black covers. cover photo by D.M.Owen.
59. apathy, by Joe Blades; 7 august 1995, 113 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red ink inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except cover versos printed black laser.
6o. bink bank bunk, by Ron Giii; 7 august 1995, 1o4 copies (states 1oo) numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except rear cover printed black laser.
61. my valentine, by Len Gasparini; 14 february 1996, 221 copies (states 2oo) numbered in red marker inside rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets speckled pale grey byronic brocade folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all except cover versos printed black laser.
62. ROUND TABLE, by Nelson Ball; 22 april 1996, 217 copies (of a stated 24o) numbered in red marker on last page; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 5 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded to 16 pp in french-fold wrappers, all interiors & front cover only printed black laser.
62. ____ 26 copies with plain filamented seagreen Fabriano Ingres endpapers, lettered in red marker & signed in black ballpoint.
63. twobitter index 1985-1996, by Nicky Drumbolis; 14 august 1996, 32 copies numbered in red marker inside rear cover, issued as List 1o6; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 4 sheets white xerographic bond folded & stapled twice to 16 pp in selfwrappers, all except cover versos & last page printed black laser.
64. AN INVENTORY OF TWOBITTER SETS, by Nicky Drumbolis; 29 july 1997, 14 copies numbered in red marker on rear cover; 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 6 sheets grey Strathmore laid folded & sewn white in 2 stitches to 24 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black laser with red rubberstamp addition to front cover.
57 contributors ID'd:
Antonin Artaud, Nelson Ball, Steve Banks, Dave Beach, John M.Bennett, Joe Blades, Daniel F.Bradley, Brian Brett, Chester Brown, Charles Bukowski, Alice Burdick, P.Cob, Victor Coleman, Arthur Cravan, jwcurry, Vic D'Or, Nicky Drumbolis, Tim Dunn, Doug Fetherling, Robert Flanagan, Amber Fritz-Drumbolis, Susan Fritz, Leonard Gasparini, Fred Gaysek, Ron Giii, Gerry Gilbert, Ron Gillespie, Martin Gray, Paul Haines, Marshall Hryciuk, Daniel Jones, C.F.Kennedy, August Kleinzahler, Mark Laba, Lance LaRocque, John Laughlin, Peggy Lefler, James Loverde, Geordie McDonald, David McFadden, Antje Meyer-Erlach, George Miller, A.F.Moritz, bpNichol, John Oughton, D.M.Owen, Maureen Paxton, Ted Plantos, Brian Purdy, John Riddell, Linda Rivers, Jack Spicer, Richard Shoe, Peter Stevens, Fraser Sutherland, Kate Van Dusen, Ludwig Zeller.
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse were delighted at the chance to move into the Bramford, one of Manhattan's oldest and most celebrated apartment houses. Their friend Hutch urged them not to; he knew of too many shadows in the Bramford's past -- unsavory tenants like Adrian Marcato, who had practiced witchcraft, and the monstrous Trench sisters. But Rosemary and Guy were clear-thinking and not at all superstitious; they dismissed Hutch's warnings and moved in.
At first they were completely happy. Rosemary hung curtains and planned a nursery for the baby she hoped to have some day. Guy pursued his career as a stage and television actor. They met their neighbors, who were friendly and unintrusive.
And then, one day when Rosemary was down in the basement laundry room, a girl her own age came in . . .
Quietly and with a compelling matter-of-factness, author Ira Levin tells a story of mounting terror that a reader can never quite forget.
"First on the Moon" is the story of Apollo 11 and the personal experiences of the three astronauts who put man on the moon. The voyage begins with President Kennedy's pronouncement on May 25, 1961, that the United States would put man on the moon before the decade was out, and continues through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
For thousands of years, mankind had survived in leisure behind a barrier and had evolved a diminutive physiology and a philosophy of peace and contemplation. A far future human, possessed of total mental power, comes out of his hideaway. He is mildly surprised to discover that earth was long ago conquered from outer space. Since he is totally peaceful, and the last human being on an earth inhabited by animals that man had raised to early human intelligence, it does not occur to him to do anything about the takeover…But the aliens would not leave well enough alone –
"The Battle of Forever" first appeared in 1971 as a paperback from Ace books.
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A. E. Van Vogt (1912-2000) was a renowned science fiction author and one of the most popular in the mid-twentieth century. He wrote more than 50 science fiction books, including such classics as “Slan,” “World of Null-A,” and “The Weapon Makers.” Son of a Canadian attorney, he began his very early writing career at age 18 as a trade paper journalist, a radio writer, and as author of confession-type fiction for such magazines as True Story and True Romances.
The book collects two science fiction novels, “The Legion of Time” and “After World’s End,” which originally appeared in the magazines Astounding and Marvel Stories.
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We finally got around to making our first Blur photo book, and it arrived today. After some deliberation we decided to go with the Large Landscape hardcover version, with dust jacket and premium paper. We ended up with a 50 page book (about 100 photos), and there are quite a few full page photos included.
After flipping through it, we are quite satisfied. It’s always fun to see photos in a larger format and the premium paper really seems to give that extra feel to it.
The only negative thing I can say is that the dust jacket is slightly large, making it not as tight a fit as I would like.
The book is a collection of photos from our second anniversary on Madeira 2009.
A funny story behind the cover photo: I was taking a few test shots to get the exposure of the background before I brought in the speedlites. I never looked at this photo as anything else than a light test shot, but when I was playing a bit in Lightroom, I tried tweaking it around a bit, and at some point I thought it looked quite interesting... different. Anyway, it ended up as the cover photo :) Lesson: never delete your light test shots!
The novel was inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student at Georgetown University. As a result, the novel takes place in Washington D.C. near the campus of Georgetown University. It's a classic work and the basis for the horror movie, "The Exorcist," directed by William Friedkin and starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. Released in 1973, the film was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 2 of them for best sound and best writing.
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The Exorcist steps in Georgetown became famous for being featured in the film. The stone steps at the corner of Prospect St NW and 36th St NW leading down to M Street NW were padded with 1/2"-thick rubber to film the death of the character Father Karras. Because the house from which Karras falls was set back slightly from the steps, the film crew constructed an extension with a false front to the house in order to film the scene. The stuntman tumbled down the stairs twice. Georgetown University students charged people around $5 each to watch the stunt from the rooftops.
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The year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's presentation of the complete Theory of General Relativity to the Prussian Academy. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize the importance of Einstein’s theory — even if his earth-shaking physics formula, Rµv–½gµvR=(8πG/c4) Tµv, is daunting to many of us. Every day, Einstein’s work is employed by a huge percentage of the human population — including everyone who uses a global positioning system (GPS).
Einstein’s theory revealed that time runs more slowly near a strong source of gravity — an idea that revolutionized physics when first presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in November 1915, but would have no practical applications for decades, because the technologies that could make use of the theory did not yet exist. Today, Einstein’s discovery makes it possible to ensure GPS devices sync up properly with satellites far from the Earth’s center of gravity.