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Jacket drawing by Oscar Ogg. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1946
OSCAR OGG, 1908-1971
"Probably more than any other designer between 1939 and 1950, Oscar Ogg made book buyers aware of calligraphic jackets. No one before or since has written with more dashing facility … In one decade (before joining Book of the Month Club as executive art director) he produced writing and jackets of such volume and distinction as to be the envy of most other calligraphers. On Oscar’s jackets, the calligraphy was dominant. Like it or not, his work was the standard against which many others were compared ... The integrity of letterforms was rarely if every compromised. Ogg’s early excess of flamboyant ascenders and descending loops was later moderated by maturity and less need to proclaim his dramatic penwork. Publishers used his designs mostly for anticipated bestsellers or well-established reprints … His jackets were simply handsome little posters, with a clear and stylish statement of title and author."
--Charles Skaggs
A photo of Frederic Brown is on the cover. 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."
CANADIAN LIFE AND LETTERS 1920-70 SELECTIONS FROM The Canadian Forum.
edited by J.L.Granatstein & Peter Stevens.
Toronto, University Of Toronto Press, [december] 1972. issued in 2 variants:
a) ISBN o-8o2o-19o9-9; 1o-3/16 x 7-3/4, 1o6 sheets ivory bond folded to 17 signatures of 6 sheets each & a final of 4, sewn pearl in 7 stitches & glued into plain black wove endpapers & 1o-3/8 x 8 brick-red cloth-textured paper-covered boards, interiors all except 4 pp printed black offset, front cover only printed black offset & goldfoil letterpress, in plain clear acetate dustjacket with 3-3/4" flaps;
b) ISBN o-8o2o-6168-o; 1o-3/16 x 7-3/4, 224 sheets ivory bond perfectbound in brick-orange/white laminate wove card wrappers, all except inside covers & 4pp printed black offset with goldfoil letterpress addition to front cover & spine.
152 contributors ID'd:
Milton Acorn, J.Ansel Anderson, Patrick Anderson, David Andrade, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Edward Arthur Beder, H.E.Bergman, Norman Bethune, Paul Bidwell, Earle Birney, George Bowering, S.W.Bradford, F.A.Brewin, David Bromige, B.R.Brooker, Jean Burton, Douglas Bush, Malcolm H.V.Cameron, Dalton C.Camp, C.H.Carlisle, Frank Carmichael, H.M.Cassidy, A.J.Casson, A.G,Christopher, J.B.Conacher, Ramsay Cook, Alan Creighton, Richard De Brisay, Louis Dudek, "C.L.E", G.V.Ferguson, Robert Finch, Eugene Forsey, Paul Fox, W.R.Frost, North Frye, Hugh Garner, John Glassco, Fergus Glenn, Huntly K.Gordon, King Gordon, Helen Gowans, J.L.Granatstein, J.H.Gray, Donald Grover, G.M.A.Grube, Ralph Gustafson, Lawren Harris, Louise Smith Harvey, David Helwig, Gad Horowitz, J.Swinyard Huxley, Jean Inglis, Mary Quayle Innis, A.Y.Jackson, Pauline Jewett, Franz Johnston, J.A.Keith, Leo Kennedy, Carlyle King, Watson Kirkconnell, A.M.Klein, Raymond Knister, R.H.Knowles, R.S.Knox, Curt Lang, Laurier L.Lapierre, Irving Layton, Felix Lazarus, A.L.Levine, Dorothy Livesay, Arthur Lower, Malcolm Lowry, J.E.H.MacDonald, Thoreau MacDonald, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Angus MacInnis, Grace MacInnis, L.A.MacKay, Millar McClure, E.W.Mandel, Anne Marriott, David McFadden, J.R.McLean, Marshall McLuhan, Eugene McNamara, Carlton McNaught, Kenneth McNaught, John Meisel, T.B.Miller, David Milne, Roland-Gilles Mousseau, H.Blair Neatby, bpNichol, Alden A.Nowlan, Padraig O Broin, Michael Oliver, ichael Ondaatje, P.K.Page, Henry Paul, John Porter, E.J.Pratt, A.W.Purdy, Herbert F.Quinn, Martha Champion Randle, James Reaney, Escott M.Reid, J.Addison Reid, Florence Rhein, L.J.Rogers, Malcolm MacKenzie Ross, Abraham Rotstein, "Rufus II", Edward Sapir, Carl Schaefer, F.R.Scott, Glen Siebrasse, C.B.Sissons, David W.Slater, John Smalacombe, Donald V.Smiley, A.J.M.Smith, Raymond Souster, Graham Spry, Paul Standing, M.H.Staples, Peter Stevens, Miller Stewart, R.G.Stewart, Fred Swayze, Colleen Thibaudeau, [--?--] Thompson-Hardy, W.Stewart Thomson, Lionel Tiger, Frank H.Underhill, F.H.Varley, A.Vixen, Miriam Waddington, Patrick Waddington, Melville H.Watkins, Phyyllis Webb, Hans Werner, Gavin White, J.F.White, A.S.Whiteley, Joyce Wieland, Milton Wilson, S.F.Wise, Henry Wise Wood, J.S.Woodsworth, James Wreford.
Nichol contributes:
i) to islands rowaboats stand on (p.386; concrete poem)
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.
A party crossing the Snowy River near Dalgety. After this photograph was reproduced (in reverse) on the dustjacket of 'Discovering Monaro' by W.K. Hancock, Mrs. Una Lukins wrote to the Library and identified the man at the rear of the group as her late uncle by marriage, Charlie Findlay.
(Ferguson Collection at the National Library of Australia)
Setting out from Callao Harbour, Peru.
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.
A historical perspective of the Kon-Tiki Expedition: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki
By Quentin Reynolds.
Landmark Books were a series of history books published in the 1950's for children. I loved reading them as a kid, but got most of them from the library where the had dull covers without dustjackets. I've been picking some up at thrift shops. I really enjoy the cover art, and since I seem to barely be able to make a dent in my monthly upload limit, I'm sharing them with you.
by Barbara Caruso.
[Ottawa], Room 3o2 Books, [4 may] 2o18. [7o copies].
2-1/2 x 2, 2 sheets white thin bond & white bond endsheet folded to 12 pp & stapled into white narrow-wale card wrappers in black strathmore dustjacket with 1-15/16" flaps, all printed black rubberstamp rectos only except last leaf & rear cover printed verso, front dj cover printed black rubberstamp thermograph.
a concrete poem dedicated "for bpNichol"
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- 1st edition, Presspresspress, 199o
November 2012: A fresh new polyester dust jacket cover has replaced the worn-out polypropylene one from THIS photo (must have photo open to use this link).
Update (Dec 2016): This book has now circulated 108 times and still looks pretty good. Polyester dust jacket covers really do a good job at protecting books, unlike our experience with polypropylene covers (as per the link above).
Floating the large balsa logs through the Equadorian jungle to the Pacific coast 1947.
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.
by Ben Watson.
London (England), Quartet Books Limited, 1994. ISBN o7o43-7o662.
5-3/4 x 9-1/8, 158 sheets ivory bond folded to 632 pp in 2o signatures (19 of 8 sheets, 19th of 6), sewn cream in 9 stitches & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers & 6-1/16 x 9-1/2 blue linen paper-covered boards printed silver foilstamp spine only, interiors all except 5 pp (ii, vi, viii, xxxiv, last page) printed black offset, in 6-1/8 x 9-1/2 white chromecoat dustjacket with 3-3/4" flaps printed black & deep turquoise offset recto only.
front cover photograph by Elliot Erwitt.
18 contributors ID'd:
Timothy Carey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Louis Cuneo, Electric Prunes, Elliot Erwitt, Jo Fell, Howard Kaylan, Jack Maher, Milt Rogers, Jim Sherwood, Marten Sund, E.H.Tull, Don Van Vliet, Edgard Varese, Mark Volman, Donald Roller Wilson, Frank Zappa, Gail Zappa.
includes:
i) Acknowledgements (pp.ix>x; with "all praise to jwcurry and Jonathan Jones for arriving at the last hour", p.x)
ii) Conceptual Continuity and the fans (pp.226>229; part 9 of 29 of Chapter 5, Bizarre to DiscReet, pp.2o8>283; curry/Room 3o2 Books referenced p.227)
iii) Bongo Fury (pp.284>291; part 1 of 1o of Chapter 6, Guitars, pp.284>31o; curry referenced p.289)
iv) Academia (pp.332>333; part 8 of 14 of Chapter 7, Läther; quotes: Bob Dean, Frank Zappa; Dean quote, pp.332>333, from interview by curry, referenced p.333)
v) Thing-Fish (pp.434>447; part 4 of 5 of Chapter 1o, Orchestras and Broadway, pp.421>456; curry quoted pp.435 & 445>446 (from Grammatrical Sabotage), referenced pp.436 & 444)
vi) Tuesday, by Ben Watson & Frank Zappa (interview, pp.533>551; part 5 of 7 of Epilogue: Going to Meet the Man, pp.533>553; curry referenced by Watson p.55o)
When Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge was published in 1968, it caused ructions among critics and the establishment across the world. Its themes were transsexuality, feminism and sexual practices that the world couldn’t quite deal with, even in the Swinging Sixties. Some critics regarded the novel as nothing more than pornographic – and as a result, of course, it became a global best-seller.
Here in the UK, the book (dedicated, incidentally, to Christopher Isherwood) was heavily censored. But cannily, Vidal allowed its publication to go ahead – so long as the censored text was replaced by blank spaces. The publisher, Anthony Blond, agreed, and as a result the book became available to British readers. A brief foreword, dripping in sarcasm, states, “Wanting in every way to adapt to the high moral climate that currently envelops the British Isles, the author has allowed certain excisions to be made in the American text”.
I have a copy of that edition. This is the book cover… and here is a typical page of censored text, which literally ends mid-sentence.
This dramatic version of Moby Dick — Melville's novel which has claims to be considered among the world's prose masterpieces — was commissioned by the B.B.C., and presented on the air, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Ahab, in January 1947. To compress this vast novel into two and a quarter hours has involved drastic cutting. In particular those famous digressions about the history and technicalities of whaling, which to the enthusiastic lover of the novel are a great part of its fascination, have had to go. There has, however, been no need to diminish the great theme of Ahab's fanatical thirst for revenge, and his 'fiery hunt' of the white whale round two-thirds of the globe. By isolating in this version that great symbolic tragedy of a man's 'quenchless feud', Henry Reed has made an interesting contribution to radio drama, and has brought to it the insight and skill which have made him known as a poet.
by the author of
A Map of Verona
apparently this book is worth, like, 200 bucks?
at least SomE of the stuff I've scanned has a worthy value!
;)
Armed gangs of robbers, called bushrangers, were a constant threat to stage coaches carrying gold from the goldfields.
Beneath the Southern Cross, A Story of Eureka by Helen Palmer 1954. Illustration by Evelyn Walters.
A history of the Australian Goldfields of the 1850s, told through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the goldfields, including the Miners Revolt at the ‘Eureka’ Stockade.
Published by FW Cheshire, Melbourne. Coloured dustjacket over light brown boards 104 pages 19cm x 13.5cm.
This copy signed by the author and includes an inserted handwritten letter from the author to Ian Turner, requesting a loan of a rare book.
The Peace Arts Anthology.
edited by Daniel Brooks & Enda Soostar.
Ottawa, Peace Arts Publishers, [january] 1985. 6oo copies numbered 1-6oo in black ink at colophon, p.ii. ISBN o-77o9-o158-1.
6 x 8-15/16, 38 sheets ivory Domtar Carlyle Japan folded to 152 pp in 9 signatures of 4 sheets each & a 1oth of 2, sewn cream in 7 double stitches & glued with plain white light card endpapers & approx.1/2" black & white cloth appliqué head & tail bands into 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 black cloth-covered boards, spine & front cover only printed white letterpress, interiors all except 1o pp (i, iv, viii, xv, xvi, & last 5 pp) printed black letterpress, in 6-5/16 x 9-1/4 white glossy dustjacket printed black offset recto only.
cover photo by Peter Hendrickson.
44 contributors ID'd:
Robert Allen, John Baglow, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, Jean-Claude Blouin, George Bowering, Daniel Brooks, Shelley Brown, Mick Burrs, L.Andrew Coward, Michael Dennis, Mary Di Michele, Margaret Dyment, Robert Eady, Mark Frutkin, Gary Geddes, Kevin Gildea, Gordon Gilhuly, Richard Harrison, Sharon Havrot, Peter Hendrickson, Tom Henighan, Doris Hillis, Robert Hogg, Joy Kogawa, Margaret Laurence, Anne Le Dressay, David Lewis, Blaine Marchand, Daphne Marlatt, Robin Mathews, Ward Maxwell, Susan McMaster, Bruce Meyer, Colin Morton, bpNichol, Robert Priest, Libby Scheier, Enda Soostar, Raymond Souster, Anne-Marie Theriault, Talking Turkey, Bronwen Wallace, Adele Wiseman.
Nichol contributes a poem:
i) Hour 16 3:35 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. (pp.24>27)
"In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter."
1946; In de woning der Geesten by Boekan Saja. Published by W. van Hoeve. Dutch hardback with dust jacket.
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.
Munich-New York: Prestel, [1998]. First edition. Hardback witth pictorial dustjacket. Colour frontispiece. ISBN 3791319914. Oversize. 116 pages with 32 full-colour and 48 black-and-white illustrations. . This book's only flaw is an inch long tear in its dustjacket at the base of the spine.
Venus and Mars captures the multiplicity of medieval life in a selection of high-quality colour eproductions of the most exquisite folios reproduced from the world-famous illuminated manuscript The Medieval Housebook, and is complemented by countless details in the accompanying text.
The Medieval Housebook, which sheds light on the beliefs and knowledge common to the period, was completed around 1480, and is particularly famous for the meticulous draftsmanship of the so-called Housebook Master.
Active in the Middle Rhine region, the artist portrayed his world with great sensitivity and wit, not only in the Housebook, but also in the many drawings, paintings and prints attributed to his hand.
Despite the outstanding quality of his work and the considerable influence his engravings, in particular, had on his younger contemporary Albrecht Durer, the identity of the Housebook Master and his patrons, however, still remain a mystery.
For over three hundred years this unique manuscript has been kept in the collection of the Princes of Walburg Wolfegg at Schloss Wolfegg near Ravensburg, Gerrmany.
The medieval manuscript includes a discussion on the art of memory, an astrological section with illustrations of the planets, jousting tournaments, gardens of love and courtly life as well as medicinal and household remedies. Chapters on mining and the art of war are also included, providing a fascinating insight into medieval technology.
All these facets of medieval life are analysed in Venus and Mars together with reproductions of some of the most exquisite folios.
Landmark Books were a series of history books published in the 1950's for children. I loved reading them as a kid, but got most of them from the library where the had dull covers without dustjackets. I've been picking some up at thrift shops. I really enjoy the cover art, and since I seem to barely be able to make a dent in my monthly upload limit, I'm sharing them with you.
edited by Louise Fletcher, Marshall Hryciuk & Keith Southward.
Toronto, [april] 1992. [probably 1oo copies; some copies released with a white xerographic bond dustjacket printed black photocopy.].
5-3/8 x 8-1/2, 11 sheets white plainfield folded to 44 pp & stapled twice into lime mayfair card wrappers, all printed black, photocopy in offset covers.
cover unacknowledged.
35 contributors ID'd:
A.Araghetti, Nick Avis, Guy R.Beining, Marianne Bluger, Ion Codrescu, Geoffrey Daniel, Robert Farmer, Fred Gasser, LeRoy Gorman, J.W.Hackett, William Hart, William J.Higginson, Wharton Hood, Gary Hotham, Jean Jorgensen, Jim Kacian, Rebecca Lilly, Daniel Thomas Manley, Loren Mattei, Michael McClintock, Steve McComas, Dorothy McLaughlin, Carol Montgomery, Lenard D.Moore, Brent Partridge, Alan Pizzarelli, Francine Porad, Phillip Quinn, Bruce Ross, Keith Southward, Dann R.Ward, Mark Arvid White, Tundra Wind, Sheldon Young.
curry contributes:
i) "abalone", as by "Wharton Hood" (poem, p.17)
This was another excellent Christmas gift from a family member. It's out of print, but available on the used market for $50 and up. Here's the bibliographic information in case anyone's interested.
Henry Reed (1914—86), author of 'Naming of Parts', probably the most anthologized English poem of the Second World War, has too often been held to be that and that only. This book gives the lie to that misperception. In addition to A Map of Verona, published in 1946, and the sequence, Lessons of the War (1970), he wrote numerous radio plays for the BBC — including Moby Dick and the Hilda Tablet group — and was also a fine translator, particularly from the Italian.
On his death Reed left behind a sheaf of uncollected poems that had appeared in magazines, particularly the Listener, and many still in manuscript. These, together with all the published work, a group of translations, a selection of songs from the radio plays, and a number of drafts and fragments, complete this Collected Poems.
Jon Stallworthy, poet, critic, and prize-winning biographer of Wilfred Owen, has had access to Reed's manuscripts, and has written a biographical and critical introduction. The volume also contains notes on the poems.
'. . . here is distilled a uniquely gifted and individual poetic talent insufficiently appreciated in its lifetime. Henry Reed takes his place alongside Auden, MacNeice, and Durrell: poets whose ease and familiarity with Europe is allied to a sure sense of English style.' — Peter Porter
Jacket illustration (front) Henry Reed
(back) Extract from an undated autograph fragment, 'The Chateau' (reproduced by kind permission of The Executor of Henry Reed's Estate).
This book has been circulated only eight times and looks like it's been in a war zone due to the polypropylene cover. See related information by clicking HERE (must have photo open to use this link).
Simon and Schuster 1945; A Time to Die by Hilda Lawrence.
Today's 'find' was handed to my by my brother. On an attic he found this Hard Cover of the Inner sanctum Mystery. Looks a bitt a strange amongs all my paperbacks, but the Cover Artist is really familiar. H. Lawrence Hoffman did the cover art.
“Out of Space and Time,” first released in 1942 by Arkham House, is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. They were selected by the author who considered them his best work to date.
Publication: Galveston ISFDB Publication Record # 15038
Authors: Sean Stewart
Year: 2000-03-00
ISBN: 0-441-00686-8 [978-0-441-00686-1]
Publisher: Ace Books
Price: $23.95
Pages: 454
Binding: hc
Type: NOVEL
Title Reference: Galveston
Cover: Victor Stabin
Notes:
"First edition: March 2000" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data includes the ISBN, publication year (2000) and LCCN: 99-35454.
Publisher stated as "Ace Books" on the title page, "Ace Fantasy" on the spine of the book and dustjacket, "An Ace Science Fiction and Fantasy Book" on the back flap of the dustjacket, and as "An Ace Book (over) Published by The Berkley Publishing Group, (over) a division of Penguin Putnam Inc." on the copyright page.
"Jacket design by Judith Murello (over) Jacket art by Victor Stabin" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (GALVESTON2000)
1514. It is likely this photo was taken in Jan. 1984, when HMAS STUART became the first major RAN warship in decades to be permanently based in Western Australia.
In his book ''The Royal Australian Navy : Historic Naval Events Year By Year', author Lew Lind chose this image to mark the March 1967 introduction of the RAN's 'Southern Cross' ensign, although the picture is actually taken the best part of 20 years later.
Astern, HMAS DERWENT has emerged here from her 1979-1983 half-life refit, with a much lower profile than previously, when the Dutch air warning radar was carried atop a tall foremast. It can now be seen astern, behind the 'golfball' gunnery radar.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in the revised 1986 edition of Mr Lind's book, cited above, at both page 253 and on the back of the dustjacket cover.
The winds of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars blow across a world where danger, daring and adventure are the lifeblood of its untamed inhabitants. Here are magnificent cities glistening with barbaric splendor and peopled by the noble red men of Mars . . . savage, rampaging hordes of giant, multi-limbed green men who roam the Martian plains . . . fierce beasts of prey whose hideous cries are the dreadful chorus of the red planet’s night.
In “Thuvia, Maid of Mars," the first of two complete novels, Carthoris, son of the legendary John Carter, is accused of abducting the beauteous Princess Thuvia. To clear his name, and to rescue the woman he loves, he must battle hosts of diabolical foes. Yet all seems lost when they fall into the hands of Tario, mad ruler of Lothar – for he proposes to sacrifice them to his savage, beast-like god!
In “Chessmen of Mars,” Prince Gahan of Gathol braves all the dangers the red planet can offer in a desperate search for the lost Tara of Helium, John Carter’s daughter. The ultimate test of courage awaits him when she is captured by the city of Manator and made the prize in a game of Martian chess – played with living pieces – and played to the death! [From the blurb on the dustjacket]
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Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) was an American artist who specialized in fantasy and science fiction themes. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential illustrators of the 20th century, and his distinctive style has inspired generations of artists and filmmakers.
Frazetta began his career as a comic book artist, working on titles such as Buck Rogers, Li'l Abner, and Vampirella. He gained fame for his cover paintings of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, and John Carter of Mars, among other pulp fiction characters. He also created posters for movies such as What's New Pussycat?, Mad Monster Party?, and The Gauntlet. In 1983, he collaborated with animator Ralph Bakshi on the film Fire and Ice, based on his original characters and designs. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Ron Lightburn with an advance copy of his book "FRANKENSTINK! Garbage Gone Bad".
Photo by Sandra Lightburn. Copyright 2014.
"FRANKENSTINK! Garbage Gone Bad" is a fun monster-under-the-bed story and a cautionary tale about the need to compost and recycle. Inspired by the monster movies and comic books of his youth, this is the first book illustrated and written by Ron. It features a glow-in-the-dark cover with a poster on the reverse of the dustjacket. To be published by Tundra Books in March 2015.
www.tundrabooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781770496941