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Robert E. Howard’s science fiction novel “Almuric” was first published in book form by Ace Books in 1964.
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It was originally a three-part serial that began with the May 1939 issue of Weird Tales.
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The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn. He transports through space to a world known as Almuric to hide from the law after a deadly altercation with a corrupt politician. While there he battles wild beasts and ape-like humanoids and becomes known as the Iron Hand due to his physical strength and fighting skills.
Volume 6 contains the stories “The Life of Death,” “How Spoilers Bleed,” “Twilight at the Towers,” “The Last Illusion,” and “On Jerusalem Street” (a postscript). "The Last Illusion" was filmed in 1995 as "Lord of Illusions."
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The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Everybody is a book of blood;
Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Clive Barker
The prediction on the rear panel is close. Yuri Gagarin had already been born and was 22 years old when the book was published. He was the first person to journey into outer space, aboard the Vostok spacecraft, and was born in 1934. He completed an orbit of the earth on April 12, 1961.
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.
Volume 5 contains the stories “The Forbidden,” “The Madonna,” “Babel’s Children,” and “In the Flesh.” "The Forbidden" was filmed in 1992 as "Candyman," a murderous soul with a hook for a hand who is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
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The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Everybody is a book of blood;
Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Clive Barker
Michael Massimino Returns to Earth
Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo
Astronaut and Franklin Square native Mike Massimino had his first spaceflight this past March. While orbiting the Earth 350 miles up, he saw a bit of heaven. "Just looking at the Earth was so beautiful. What I got to enjoy more than looking at the Earth during the day was looking at the stars and the Earth during our night passes. All the stars are these perfect points of light. That was just incredible. It was heaven."
Dr. Massimino brought some of the heavens down to the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Wednesday, July 12th, as the first speaker in the Museum's lecture series. He presented the Museum with a flown flag, mission patch, and dustjacket for the book "Takeoff! How Long Island Inspired America to Fly." He also showed a video about his STS-109 flight, a mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a homecoming in another way for Massimino. In the early 1980s, he was a volunteer at the Museum.
This was his third appearance in the area in a week. The previous Saturday, he presented a flag and pennant to the engineering school of Columbia University, where he was graduated in 1984 with a BS in industrial engineering, and also took part in a parade in Franklin Square as the guest of honor. Following his appearance at the Museum, Massimino threw the first pitch in the Mets-Yankees game on Saturday, June 15th.
Massimino recalled that from an early age he wanted to be an astronaut. He showed a photo of himself, wearing a homemade spacesuit and carrying a Snoopy astronaut doll. "When I was in first grade, I had an elephant costume. My mom took it and made it into a spacesuit. Not a bad job." He then showed a photo of himself conducting one of the spacewalks and commented, "I couldn't tell my mother I liked this second spacesuit better than the first."
He continued, "I first thought about becoming an astronaut when I was 6 years old, when they were putting people on the moon. I thought it was really cool that people were going to the moon. I thought it was the most important and interesting thing going on. I still feel that spaceflight is the most important and interesting thing that we're doing, and that's why I'm doing it." He went on to say that later on, he went to graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the idea of making space as a career, as well as getting involved with space-related research. "It took me four tries to be an astronaut, but I finally succeeded after seven years."
"My family was very supportive of my work," he said, noting with a smile that he had promised his son a puppy after the launch. "We landed on the 12th and on the 16th we went to the pound." The hardest part? "The swimming requirements," Massimino replied. "I had learned to swim, but not the NASA way," he said, referring to the water survival courses. "My kids are better swimmers than I."
Massimino concluded, "Do the thing that you like the best. The best advice on how to be an astronaut is to find out what you would like to do if you can't be an astronaut. You may find yourself doing something else that you may like even more. You might not get what you sought out in the beginning, but it may be better than what you were looking for. Do what you love and things should work out."
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With Massimino's retirement from NASA in late July 2014, I realized I never posted the above photo. "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" had just come out around the time I met him, and I tried unsuccessfully to get a signed copy from the National Air and Space Museum. Had I done so, Massimino would have been the 7th autograph in that book.
Instead, it would take until April 2011 and the Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration presentation at MIT in Boston before Massimino would sign my book.
Check out my snazzy 2002 NJ press pass and the pocket full of Sharpies. I did write an article for the local Franklin Square paper, which unfortunately has gotten lost over the years. I believe the above transcription, from the collectSPACE website, is an accurate rendering of what I wrote. (There is a typo: he appeared at the museum in June, not July.)
edited by Richard Kostelanetz.
New York, William Morrow And Company Incorporated, [december] 198o. issued in 2 variants:
a) ISBN o-688-o3616-3: "bound": 6 x 9, 223 sheets ivory bond perfectbound with plain robin's egg blue heavy bond endpapers into 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 plain ivory kraft-covered boards with 4" white cloth spinewrap printed shiny blue foilstamp & approx.1-5/16" white & slate cloth appliqué head~ & tail bands, interiors all except 7 pp (6, 8, 12, 24, last 3 pp) printed black offset, in 6-1/4 x 9-3/16 glossy PVC white bond dustjacket printed black, bright blue & pink recto only;
b) ISBN o-688-o8616-o, "pbk.": 6 x 9, 223 sheets ivory bond perfectbound into glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 7 pp (as above) printed black offset with bright blue & pink additions to outside covers.
cover text by Bliem Kern.
97 contributors ID'd:
Walter Abish, Jonathan Albert, Charles Amirkhanian, Beth Anderson, Douglas Barbour, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, Warren Burt, John Cage, Alissandru Caldiero, Archie Carr, Rosemarie Castoro, Geoffrey Cook, Michael Cooper, Philip Corner, Jean-Jacques Cory, Bruce Curley, Guy De Cointet, Charles Dodge, Jon Erickson, Raymond Federman, Camille Foss, Sheldon Frank, Fern Friedman, Kenneth Gaburo, Jon Gibson, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Anthony Gnazzo, Malcolm Goldstein, Mark Goodman, Glenn Gould, Courtenay P.Graham-Gazaway, Grion Gysin, Terri Hanlon, Lafcadio Hearn, William Hellerman, Scott Helmes, Dick Higgins, Eugene Jolas, Kevin Jones, Lionel Kearns, Bliem Kern, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth King, Christopher Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Lawrence Kucharz, S.J.Leon, Charles Levendosky, Annea Lockwood, Cindy Lubar, Alvin Lucier, Toby Lurie, Jackson Mac Low, David Mahler, Steve McCaffery, Aaron Miller, Frank Mitchell, Charles Morrow, bpNichol, Claes Oldenburg, John Oswald, Spirs Pantos, Michael Joseph Phillips, Pedro Pietri, Norman Henry Pritchard II, Faye Ran, Henry Rasof, Ernest Robson, Jerome Rothenberg, Steve Ruppenthal Patrick Saari, R.Murray Schafer, Arleen Schloss, Armand Schwerner, Juduth Johnson Sherwin, Mary Ellen Solt, Charles Stein, Gertrude Stein, Ned Sublette, Henry David Thoreau, Jose Garcia Villa, Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Lawrence Weiner, Larry Wendt, Jon Whyte, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, A.J.Wright, Nina Yankowitz, Karl Young, Harriet Zinner, Ellen Zweig.
Nichol contributes:
i) PARTICULAR MUSIC (sound poetry score, pp.33o>331; given as by the Four Horsemen; a different draft than that which appears in The Prose Tattoo)
ii) From Sound to Sense (prose essay, p.335; includes Nichol's Hiroshima (mon amour) in full)
also includes:
iii) DISCUSSION... GENESIS... CONTINUITY: Some Reflections on the Current Work of The Four Horsemen, by Steve McCaffery (prose essay, pp.27o>28o; n 2 parts:
–1) "The Horsemen don't think of their pieces as, in any way, final products." (pp.277>279)
–2) Text (pp.279>28o)
iv) CONTRIBUTORS, by Richard Kostelanetz (pp.434>441; with capsule bios of the Four Horsemen (p.435) & Nichol (p.439) & references to Four Horsemen & Toronto Research Group under the entry for Steve McCaffery (p.438))
Title: Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar - vol 1;
Author: Peter V. Bruyns;
Publisher: Umdaus Press, Hatfield, South Africa;
Edition: first (2005)
Pages: VI + 330 (color);
Binding: hardcover in dustjacket;
Language: English;
Dimensions: 23,7 x 30,3 cm;
ISBN: 1-919766-37-5 (standard edition)
The newly-wed voyagers.
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/No._455_Squadron_RAAF
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).
Pictured on the dust jacket are field crickets, which Jean-Henri Fabre describes as follows: "Here is one of the humblest of creatures able to lodge himself to perfection. He has a home; he has a peaceful retreat, the first condition of comfort."
“Fabre’s Book of Insects” contains a great French entomologist’s charming essays about insects in real life, mythology and folklore. The book is a retelling of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ translation of Jean-Henri Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques.” The essays were reworked by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated with 12 full-color plates by Edward J. Detmold.
Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883-1908) were prolific Victorian book illustrators. Although stunned by the death of Maurice in 1908, Edward threw himself into his work and became one of the most talented of illustrators, depicting animals and plants with an extraordinary understanding.
I first read Scribner’s classic edition of “Treasure Island,” with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, and I reread the story again later as an adult in the unembellished Grosset & Dunlap edition. The Scribner’s edition with Wyeth’s dramatic visuals added a whole new dimension to the story. The illustrations were so vivid and dynamic in capturing the spirit of adventure that they left a lasting impression.
Grosset & Dunlap, on the other hand, attempted to reach a wider audience without sacrificing durability. Their edition is built to be more affordable, so only the dustjacket and frontispiece are illustrated. Yet it, too, has become quite valuable over time. The nostalgia factor combined with Grosset & Dunlap’s historical significance has made their books sought-after by collectors who appreciate their accessibility and charm.
By the time I revisited “Treasure Island” in the G&D edition, it was almost like seeing a familiar landscape through a different lens – text only, yet still infused with Wyeth’s imagery that had shaped my first encounter. It speaks to the power of great artwork in storytelling. Even when absent, it lingers in the imagination, influencing how we visualize the characters and scenes.
First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. 8vo., publisher's heavy grain decorated beige cloth. A near fine copy in like dustjacket, bright, clean and fresh. Housed in a tailor made leather spined case. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:
"For Jules and Joyce and also Joan with love John Steinbeck."
Beneath the signature is one of Steinbeck's irreverent flying pig sketches (or "Pigasus" if you prefer), generally an indication that the recipient of his presentation was a close and valued friend,or someone he held in high esteem. In this case it was Jules Buck, and Joyce Gates, with their young daughter, Joan. Jules Buck started out as John Huston's camerman for his wartime documentaries (”Winning Your Wings", "Let There Be Light" etc.) and then grew into an influential producer, both in the US and abroad. Although having a sketchy working relationship with Huston, they reportedly fell out over Huston's anti-Semitic behaviour (Huston later referred to Buck as "My body servant" which is obviously super healthy). He collaborated with Steinbeck on the screenplay of what would end up as Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata", although uncredited, and later produced "The Killers", "The Naked City" etc. before shifting to Europe to escape the Hollywood witch hunts, founding a production company with Peter O'Toole (Keep Films) and producing such wonders as "Under Milk Wood", "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England", "Lord Jim" and "What's New Pussycat" Joyce Gates was an actress in various small, often uncredited, roles in movies like "Kismet", and their daughter Joan is a notable journalist, writer, and all round renaissance woman by all accounts; at one point the London correspondent for Warhol's "Interview" magazine, the only American to have been editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl.", later published in "The Pump House Gang." She started studying acting in 2002, and appeared in Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia", later writing about the experience of auditioning for Ephron. She fell from grace after Vogue published a decidedly lightweight and grievously ill timed interview with Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. Frankly they seem fascinating, but basically the point is that Steinbeck knew them very well, and liked them, and inscribed his sad, slow, strange, dust-bowl novel to them. A really gorgeous and interesting association copy of an undeniably great book.
Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” The image on the front panel of the dust jacket has a Franciscan monk in front of a Peruvian rope bridge. The book tells the story of the fictional collapse of an Inca-made rope bridge in Lima, Peru, at noon on Friday, July 20, 1714. The novel recounts the event and its memorial as well as Brother Juniper’s six-year effort to chronicle the stories of the 5 victims of the collapse, with flashbacks to the victims’ lives and the events that led up to their deaths.
Young Danny Cross couldn’t understand the telegram from the Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered whether it had anything to do with the reported “death” of one of America’s leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White Sands. He was surprised that it was only another thorough security check and a change of security card – the vital “open sesame” to anyone living in the Alamogordo, New Mexico, of 1981.
But Danny noticed a change in the atmosphere at the proving grounds and in the communities where its scientists and technicians lived. As more atomic scientists disappeared in “rocket explosions” miles above Earth – explosions that failed to scatter debris under the sites of the accidents – the former camaraderie was replaced by an air of suspicion and foreboding.
The continuing disappearances led Danny to conclude that a highly skilled scientific group had planned, constructed and was operating a space station in secret. He suspected that even his father and mother were planning to leave Earth for an extraterrestrial life. [Synopsis of “Rockets to Nowhere” by Lester Del Rey (1954)]
Title: Die Gattung MAMMILLARIA Monographie Band 2;
Author: Werner Reppenhagen;
Publisher: Steinhart (D);
Edition: first (1992);
Pages: 364 ~ 811 (color & b/w);
Cover: hardbound in dustjacket;
Language: German;
Dimensions: 25 x 17.8 x 3.4 cm;
ISBN: n/a.
Cover photo: Mammillaria wagneriana
Edited by Ian Hamilton. London: Alan Ross, 1965. Pictured, top: Alun Lewis, Sidney Keyes, Alan Ross; middle: Hamish Henderson, Gavin Ewart, John Pudney; bottom: Paul Dehn, Roy Campbell.
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
edited by Michael E.Casteels.
[Kingston], Puddles Of Sky Press, [before 12] november 2o22. 75 unique copies.
approx.4-3/4 x 4-1/8, center sheet buff bond folded to 4-1/4 x 3 sewn into used brown kraft envelope compound folded & trimmed to 8pp approx.4-3/4 x 3-5/8 & 4-3/4 x 4-1/8 glossy white-coated brown cardboard wrappers found printed 4-colour offset recto only, in various forms of dustjacket made from used envelopes, variously offset-printed, with either one or 2 cellophane cover windows, interiors all printed black rubberstamp with authors' names in blue (11 pp) & titles in green (3 pp, inside rear cover only printed black rubberstamp, dj printed blue rubberstamp outside covers only with green addition to front cover.
1o contributors ID'd:
Michal E.Casteels, Guy Ewing, Jason Heroux, Alicia Hilton, Mark Laba, Bob MacKenzie, "M@", Pearl Pirie, Angeline Schellenberg, Dale Tracy.
includes:
i) "With thanks to jwcurry for", by [Michael E.Casteels] (inside rear cover; prose acknowledgement "...for example, inspiration, and the title...')
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
Title and a photo of the Waltzing Matilda in a Patagonian inlet.
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/No._455_Squadron_RAAF
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).
The novel concerns American Leif Langdon who discovers a warm valley in Alaska. Two races inhabit the valley, the Little People and a branch of an ancient Mongolian race and they worship the evil Kraken named Khalk'ru which they summon from another dimension to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants recognize Langdon as the reincarnation of their long dead hero, Dwayanu. Dwayanu's spirit possesses Langdon and starts a war with the Little People. Langdon eventually fights off the presence of Dwayanu and destroys the Kraken. [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is how John Keel’s “Jadoo” is described on the dust jacket:
From the Upper Nile to the lower Ganges and the Roof of the World in Tibet, John Keel traveled in search of Jadoo – the black magic of the Orient – and had some of the most fantastic experiences ever to appear on the printed page. Everywhere he went he hunted down the mystics, lamas, jadoo-wallas and fakirs, befriending them and ferreting out their secrets. He learned how to do the Indian Rope trick, be buried alive, to charm snakes, walk on water and stick pins into himself without bleeding. He discovered the truth behind bearded cobras, two-headed snakes, trees growing out of the ground in a matter of minutes, X-ray eyes that can see through blindfolds and other “supernatural” phenomena.
But Mr. Keel also found magic with no logical explanation. As skeptical as the rest of us, he is still puzzled by the Tibetan monk who sat in his cell and knew immediately of an occurrence in a village many miles away, and the lama he interviewed who sat cross-legged in midair balanced only on a staff.
Just as fascinating as the magic are Mr. Keel’s incredible adventures in the East. In Baghdad he played Russian Roulette with “the most dangerous man in Iraq,” witnessed the religious rites of devil worshippers in an underground temple and investigated the manufacturing of mummies out of fresh corpses. He met Tenzing, the Sherpa guide, lost his car in a raging waterfall, and hunted down the “Abominable Snowman” in the Himalayas. He was almost crushed to death by a camel, bitten by a cobra and set upon by cutthroats.
What he saw and did will astonish readers with a taste for the bizarre. Here is really off-beat adventure, told by an engaging, unpredictable author.
Sixty Poets of Canada (and Quebec) Select and Introduce Their Favourite Poems from Their Own Work.
edited by John Robert Colombo.
Edmonton, M.G.Hurtig Limited Publishers, [december] 197o. issued in 2 variants:
a) ISBN o-8883o-o31-X: 5-1/4 x 7-7/8, 1o4 sheets tan newsprint perfectbound into white rectogloss card wrappers, all except inside covers & 12 pp (ii, viii, xvi, 162, 185>192) printed black offset with orange & olivegreen additions to outside covers;
b) ISBN o-8883o-o32-8: 5-1/4 x 7-7/8, 5o sheets ivory wove folded to 2oo pp in 7 sugnatures, 6 of 8 sheets, the 6th of 2, sewn pearl cream in 7 doublestitches & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers & 5-7/16 x 8-1/4 orange cloth-covered boards printed gold foilstamp on spine only, interiors all except 12 pp (as in (a) issue) printed black offset, in 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 white glossy dustjacket with 3-9/16" flaps printed black, olivegreen, pink & orange offset recto only.
cover by Roy Peterson.
52 contributors ID'd: Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, George Bowering, Elizabeth Brewster, Paul Chamberland, Cecile Clotier, Fred Cogswell, Leonard Cohen, John Robert Colombo, Stanley Cooperman, Frank Davey, Louis Dudek, Raoul Duguay, R.G.Everson, Joan Finnigan, Roland Giguère, John Glassco, Jacques Godbout, Phyllis Gotlieb, Eldon Grier, Ralph Gustafson, David Helwig, Daryl Hine, Harry Howith, George Johnston, George Jonas, D.G.Jones, Lionel Kearns, Michèle Lalonde, Paul-Marie Lapointe, Irving Layton, Dennis Lee, Douglas LePan, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay Macpherson, Eli Mandel, Tom Marshall, John Newlove, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, Fernand Ouellette, P.K.Page, Claude Péloquin, Roy Peterson, Jean-Guy Pilon, Alfred Purdy, Joe Rosenblatt, F.R.Scott, Ben Shek, Robin Skelton, A.J.M.Smith, Raymond Souster, Francis Sparshott, Miriam Waddington, Wilfred Watson, Phyllis Webb, George Woodcock, J.Michael Yates.
Nichol contributes:
i) THE END OF THE AFFAIR (concrete poem, p.16o)
ii) separate letter to cover separate event (prose on (i) above, pp.16o>162; quotes: [Mick Jagger?], bpNichol (from The End Of The Affair, parts of lines 5 & 1o, parts of 12>16)
also includes:
iii) "How Do I Love Thee", by Roy Peterson (front cover design; Nichol's name worked into the background typestract)
iv) PREFACE, by John Robert Colombo (pp.ix>xv; references Nichol)
v) BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES, by John Robert Colombo (prose, pp.167>182; in 6o parts, including:
–4) bill bissett (p.168; with quote by bpNichol (from ?)
–42) bpNichol (p.177; with quote by bpNichol (from ?))
vi) "The first literary collection of its kind in Canada – How", unacknowledged (prose blurb, rear cover of hardcover dustjacket only; passing reference to Nichol)
by Jennifer Books & jwcurry.
Ottawa, Canadian Small Change Association, 14 august 1999. 46 unique copies numbered in black rubberstamp & signed in ballpoint, issued as '95 Hitlist Variety 43, this copy dedicated to Lefler.
approx.16 x 13, 15 leaves (one gatefold) japanese sewn white in 8 double stitches with head~ & tailstitches & tipped in plain brown kraft-backed silver foil dustjacket with 3-7/8 x 5-7/8 triptych cover window & plain 4-7/8 x 7-1/8 acetate panel over window in clear plastic photocorners, 31 pp printed rubberstamp over various found substrates with 42 colour photographs mounted in clear plastic photocorners throughout & one leaf white xerographic bond printed 4colour process photocopy glued in, the interior sheets as follows:
1) 14-1/4 x 13 "EXPLOSIVE A EXPLOSIF 1.1 1" railway placard printed orange & black offset both sides, with 4 x 1 photocopy order form (filled out in ballpoint) stuck on & 4 x 6 colour photograph glued on (front cover sheet)
2) approx.11-1/4 x 6 offwhite mayfair card cut & torn irregularly with found pencil graphic occupying all but the top 1/2" overprinted 4 colours rubberstamp recto/4 x 6 brown monochrome photograph mounted in photocorners with black rubberstamp verso
3) 14-3/4 x 11-3/8 offwhite bristol board printed black rubberstamp both sides with red addition recto, with 5 brown monochrome photographs mounted in photocorners (2 recto, 3 verso)
4) 12 x 16-1/2 white card broadside printed black offset (Durm-I Brooks, TEECHA STILL DEH TEECH, np, Jamup Productions, 1993) & folded roughly in half to form a 4 pp 8-1/4 x 12 signature, all printed black rubberstamp with 2 colour photographs mounted in photocorners, one to each inside page
5) 14 x 11 black & white found photograph printed black rubberstamp both sides with 3 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (1 recto, 2 verso)
6) 29 x 8-1/2 white-coated brown cardboard Application for Firearms Acquisition Certificate (F.A.C.) printed black offset & folded to 4 pp, 15-1/2 x 8-1/2 with a 13-1/2 x 8-1/2 gatefold, all printed black rubberstamp with 8 photographs (7 colour, 1 brown monochrome) mounted 2 to a page in photocorners
7) 16 x 1o torn white glossy, bottom half of 4colour offset poster Rambolette (Detroit, Saint Chateaux Galleries, 1987), printed black rubberstamp both sides with 6 colour photographs mounted 3 per side in photocorners
8) 16 x 1o torn white glossy, top half of 4colour poster Rambolette (see leaf 7), printed black rubberstamp both sides with 5 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (a composite of 2 recto, 3 verso)
9) approx.28 x 16 brown paper shopping bag, printed brown & black offset for an unidentifiable Vancouver store, roughly folded in 4 to approx.14 x 11 with 5" flap along bottom & fold at foreëdge,
overprinted black rubberstamp both sides with 3 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (1 recto, 2 verso)
1o) 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 sheet white ribbed card torn at top, printed black rubberstamp both sides with 2 photographs mounted in photocorners (black & white recto, colour verso)
11) 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 white mayfair card with found pencil & marker sketch by Meng Giang recto, printed black rubberstamp both sides with shaped colour photograph mounted in photocorners & torn white bond printed 4colour process photocopy glued verso
12) 13-1/2 x 8-1/2 speckled gold mayfair card torn at bottom with 2 x 3-1/2 white card glued recto printed green offset for Souris & Petitti Advertising/Communications, printed black rubberstamp bothnsides with red additions recto, with 3 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (2 recto, 1 verso)
13) 13-1/4 x 9-1/2 turquoise coarsewove ard torn at top, printed black rubberstamp both sides with 2 colour photographs mounted in photocorners, 1 per side
14) approx.11-3/4 x 11-1/2 unassembled cardboard box with 1'1/4" diameter circular window, printed black & gold offset for Joseph & Zane's The Classic Boxer Short ("The Most Comfortable Underwear You'll Ever Wear"), printed black & brown rubberstamp verso only & signed in blue ballpoint by Books & curry
15) 14-1/4 x 13 "EXPLOSIVE A EXPLOSIF 1.2 1" railway placard printed black & orange offset (rear cover sheet)
cover photograph: jwcurry
7 other contributors ID'd:
Jennifer Books, Meng Giang, Lance LaRocque, Mlina Lore, Gustave Morin, Gio Sampogna, Johan Teveldal
includes:
i) '95 HitList Variety 43, jwcurry (prose, Lefler cameo)
ii) for Peg E, jwcurry (rubbercut portrait of Lefler)
iii) Dedicatee Peggy lefler examines yet another cultural artifact at her table at home at 1357 Lansdowne Avenue in Toronto, perhaps as early as 2jul95, Gustave Morin (photograph, portrait)
iv) Peggy lefler at her table at 1357 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto, probably 6jul95, Gustave Morin (photograph, portrait)
v) Willowvale Park, Toronto, Peggy lefler as temporary park popcan pickupper, 9jul95, Gio Sampogna (photograph, portrait)
vi*) Willowvale Park, Toronto, jwcurry, Jana & Mlina Lore & Peggy lefler enable this triptych of tableaux vivants typical of the guerrilla stylee style o' still photography, characterized by such highcharge interelemental dynamics, 9jul95, Gio Sampogna (sequence of 3 photographs:
–1. curry, Jana, Mlina, Lefler [maybe amused];
–2. Jana (making a face), curry, Mlina, Lefler [maybe notso amused];
–3. Jana, curry, Mlina, Lefler [no, not amused])
vii*) Willowvale Park, Toronto, jwcurry, Jana Lore, Peggy lefler & Gio.Sampogna almost high on the hill, 9jul95, Gustave Morin (photo, portrait)
viii) Willowvale Park, Toronto, jwcurry & Peggy lefler, 9jul95, Gio Sampogna (photo, portrait)
ix*) Toronto, looking approximately E along Bloor Street from the Grace Street extension to Christie Street & beyond, gustave morin, jwcurry, Jana Lore, Peggy lefler & Mlina Lore all off from the extended shangbreak after celebratory ice cream, 9jul95, Jennifer Books (photo, portrait)
[note: all titling by curry.
asterisked photographs also appeared in Variation 34, 3 april 1997]
Tomasz Kozak
POROSEIDY – fenomenologia kultury trawersującej
Introduction: Jarosław Lubiak
Preface: Agata Bielik-Robson
Cover, dust jacket, flyleaf and illustrations: Maurycy Gomulicki
Typesetting and text makeup: Karol Grzywaczewski
Cover font: SpondulixNF by Nick Curtis
CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2017
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.
Horses! Horses! Horses!
When I was a kid, I checked out or bought every copy of the "Famous Horse Stories" books that I could find. Here is a selection of tittles from the series. How many did you read?
From the back cover dust jacket of "Mountain Pony and the Rodeo Mystery."
Dustjacket by Barnett Freedman (1901-1958) for "The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear" edited by Holbrook Jackson, Ed. Faber and Faber Limited, London and Boston, 1947
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:
"for Peg E" (Lefler), completed 14 August 1999, Ottawa. japanese-sewn in paper-backed foil dustjacket with cover windows. cover photo by jwc: "CP Parry Sound, looking down at Great Northern Road from the Seguin River bridge, 11jul95". for a detailed description of its construction, see www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/7306635660/.
"...after 52 hours of autorack ensconcement, even the environmental disaster that constitutes Edmonton was welcome solid ground to tromp around on a-whiling, another example of automotive aid as we exited the yard into the back of a proferred pickup (outta 8 trucks & into one other!) & on to town transit, interior stop in Strathcona revealing a trackfull of cabeese aside the walk-right-in CP yard, sure breeding ground for the "showerstall mould" variety of caboose alteration during a good dampening, last act & a snooze, food, fooled right over the hump of the CN Calder yard & out on a theoretical limb to the W outlying CN Bissell yard for the payoff of a potash train in wait for dawn's drive through to a dusk deboarding onto the beach of Lake Eleanor, around which clusters the crew change; Blue River...
...
walk to water & the nearest mall liquids for the transit into
catching up with Gio's travails since Kamloops at Richmond
connecting to mailback & redistributions through Letters 1s
missing Ron Giii's CHEESE at Symptom Hall but making th
Gus autoracking W from CP Lambton to be yarded in Oakv
meet Karylin Smith at The Library as a possible 3rd for the
report from Brian Nash of the Myrte Tower crash in hurri
chased around the CP Agincourt G & Torbrun Shed yards
making an intermodal with a conspicuously open containe
threat of transportation fraud in Port Hope dropped in favo
no train in Cobourg, either, Karylin wandering off for a bus
hitchhiking to Belleville (no train) & on to Ottawa with the
1st view of the complete Presspresspress at theNational Lib
no caboose for Dorothy Howard's lift to Smiths Falls for a
no trains after 8 miles of track rip up under a derailme
no train, a bust (Toronto or), a bus, no train to run to, ab"
[note: for the "showerstall mould" caboose collage, see www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/6235506403/;
for the Myrtle Tower, see
Astronauts Gus Grissom, John Young, Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra, along with 30 + other military and aerospace personalities of the mid-1960s have signed the book.
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.
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
Nigel Beale is a freelance writer/broadcaster who specializes in literary journalism, and likes to take photographs of books.
He has interviewed many well known authors, publishers and antiquarian booksellers. To listen, visit www.nigelbeale.com