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For Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 336/365
One of my favourite books for 25 years. Rumi was a 13th-Century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. As I age I've stopped having an allergic reaction to the religious aspects. So I can simply enjoy reading the whole thing now. I'm rereading it and finding new beauty I don't remember.
Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.
List of stories: “The Hound of Death,” “The Red Signal.” “The Fourth Man,” “The Gypsy,” “The Lamp,” “Wireless,” “The Witness for the Prosecution,” “The Mystery of the Blue Jar,” “The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael,” “The Call of Wings,” “The Last Séance,” and “S.O.S.”
“Most of these are tales of fate and the supernatural with comparatively little detective content. This collection is most notable for the first appearance in a book of Christie’s famous short story “The Witness for the Prosecution.” The author subsequently wrote an award-winning play based on this story which has been adapted for film and twice for television.” [Source: Agatha Christie Wiki at agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hound_of_Death_and_Oth...]
"Witness for the Prosecution" 1957 Movie Trailer:
“While visiting Tarzan in his African jungle home, an American girl falls into the most astonishing science-fiction adventure of all. By a quirk in Time, a white-skinned savage from the Stone Age is thrust forward to modern days long enough to meet her and bring her back to his own world of cave people, saber-tooth tigers, and prehistorical wilderness. The ETERNAL SAVAGE (aka, The Eternal Lover) is the story of Nu of the Niocene and Victoria Custer of Nebraska, U.S.A. two human beings pitted against the world of primeval past. A startling natural catastrophe throws a caveman into contact with the modern African jungle and brings a Twentieth Century American girl into the dawn world of the Niocene Age. Here is Nu, son of Nu seeking to test his mettle against the terrible angst of the ferocious saber-tooth tiger. Here is Victoria Custer, guest of Tarzan, seeking vacation and adventure and finding more than she The Eternal Savage could ever have dreamed of.”
[Synopsis from the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library at www.edgarriceburroughs.com/series-profiles/stories-of-adv...]
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
One minute, Learoy Spofford was a former American tennis champion, enjoying a visit to London with his lovely wife – the next minute he was a muscular savage on the weird world of Graypec, fighting for the possession of a primitive but beautiful blonde. Catapulted by a strange science into a universe existing within an atom, not knowing if he could ever return, Learoy finds himself involved in the greeds and lusts of primeval men and women at war with a crustacean form of life. Suspense builds through climax after climax to a finish which is as startling as the premise. This is the novel about which H. G. Wells said: “. . . I think it’s a very good story, indeed, of the fantastic scientific type and I was much amused and pleased to find myself . . . in it.”
A favourite book on my shelves is a hardback copy of The Kon-Tiki Expedition, by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and published by Unwin in 1950. Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated by this extraordinary expedition, in which Heyerdahl and his crew crossed the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft in 1947. The 3,247 nautical mile journey took them 101 days.
In 1962 as an 18-year-old, I visited the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo – and there I bought myself a pair of silver cufflinks commemorating the voyage. On the occasions it’s been necessary to wear a shirt and tie, I’ve worn those cufflinks ever since; I’ve never had need of another pair.
Here they are, treasured possessions, with the book’s cover acting as a backdrop.
Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra “Penny” Baxter, on a small farm in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods in the 1870s. Jody loves the outdoors and his family and he has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember. His mother says that they barely have enough food to feed themselves, let alone a pet, but he convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a fawn – named Flag – and it becomes his constant companion.
The book focuses on Jody’s life as he matures along with Flag and on Jody’s struggles with strained relationships, hunger, death of beloved friends, and the capriciousness of nature through a catastrophic flood. He experiences tender moments with his family, his fawn, and their neighbors and relatives. Along with his father, he comes face to face with the rough life of a farmer and hunter.
First published in March, 1938, “The Yearling” became the best-selling novel of 1938 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. It was adapted into a 1946 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr. (as young Jody), Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker.
Movie Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es3J3nOahnE
John W. Campbell’s classic “Who Goes There?” was the basis of two popular movies – Howard Hawks’ “The Thing From Another World” in 1951 and John Carpenter’s “The Thing” in 1982. The story is about an Antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man alike. Paranoia ensues as a band of frightened men work to discern friend from foe and destroy the menace.
Here are links to the movie trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-qogh7GA0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec
Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s. He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
On the planet Mars, when the waters of the melting polar ice caps begin to flow, bringing new life to the ancient dying cities, Spring Night is celebrated. During this time of revelry and unrestrained emotions, Masters and Blood-givers are equal, and there is no law. In earlier ages when Mars was young there was only one race on the Red Planet, but thousands of centuries of inbreeding have changed the Masters to a stunted, atrophied race whose thin blood needs periodic renewing from the virile veins of the Blood-givers.
Against the strange background of an old, old world, with a social system which has no earthly counterpart, P. Schuyler Miller has developed a fascinating story of intrigue and adventure. Rebellion stirs among the Blood-givers, complicated by a romance which develops between Korul, leader of the servant race, and Thorana, daughter of the First Master.
A new factor enters the tale in the person of a great, bearded creature in a Martian Zoo – a being who is called the “Star-Beast” because of his gesturing and screaming to the stars at the time of his capture twenty years earlier. He becomes “The Titan” when he finally makes himself known as a man from Earth.
This unusual novella is a story of Martians with the man from Earth as the strange, alien being – and Miller handles his theme with his customary skill.
The remainder of the book contains a selection of the best of Miller’s shorter science fiction published in magazine form during the past fifteen years. Here are such masterpieces as “Spawn,” which tells what happens when pure life falls to earth, landing in the ocean, in a mountain peak of gold, and in the body of a dead dictator – animating each! . . . Here is “Old Man Mulligan,” a queer old guy with delusions of age – a hundred thousand years of age. Odd how his memory of cave men days on Earth helps out on Venus . . . Then there’s “Gleeps” – who spells trouble in the star lanes. He can be anything or anyone. Bad luck with a personality.
There are other stories, equally entertaining – as much entertainment and as much length as two average science novels.
Montpelier, Idaho is home to the wonderful National Oregon California Trail Center. They are a very community-oriented organzation and I visit there often. A huge collection of western history books was donated to them recently so they built a little reading room out of barn wood to display the books in one corner of the gallery space. They added a couple of comfortable easy chairs, some reading lights, and tables where the books can be enjoyed, but so far there are no arrangements to borrow them. This photo is probably less than 5% of the collection. I enjoyed looking through the collection and plan to spend more time there.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
“This is the story of Tarzan’s return to the life and ways of the ape-man in his search for vengeance on those who took from him his beloved wife and despoiled the home which he had made in British East Africa. He finds them, but the result makes only the beginning of the story which carries him swiftly through a series of the most amazing complications to a still more amazing climax.
“Never has a character appeared in any book like Edgar Rice Burroughs’ strange creation, Tarzan, the Ape-Man. Read this story and you will understand why Tarzan has proved the most sensational figure in recent fiction.”
[Note: The dust jacket reprints the artwork from the 1920 first edition.]
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
Nearly twenty years ago, Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley began their first collaboration on a book, which became the widely acclaimed "The Conquest of Space." It prophesied a manned flight to the moon -- now an official project on the agenda of the United States astronauts for a target date of 1970.
"Beyond the Solar System," in which beautiful full-color paintings and lucid text familiarize the reader with the stars in the comparatively nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, makes another startling prediction. The first interstellar expedition will be undertaken "when people now alive (though very young) will be able to watch the take-off on television -- say, half a century from now." This voyage will have as its goal the sun's nearest bright neighbor, the stellar system Alpha Centauri in the southern sky.
[The authors were on target back in the 1940's when they predicted a manned flight to the moon by 1970. But they were totally off in the early 1960's when they predicted interstellar travel by now. Even Star Trek couldn't do it until the 23rd century.}
J. B. Lippincott Company. Book Club Edition 1961. Jacket design by Rudolph de Harak, Inc. A Main Line Mystery.
Coincides with the release of the film starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall and illustrated with scenes from the Samuel Goldwyn Production.
Set in the South Seas, the film is about a Polynesian, Terangi (Jon Hall), who is unjustly imprisoned after being attacked by a racist with political connections. Unable to bear being confined, Terangi repeatedly tries to escape, lengthening his sentence from 6 months to 16 years. He succeeds in getting out after 8 years but at a terrible price: he unintentionally kills a guard. He steals a canoe and returns to his island home after an arduous journey. He is reunited with his wife, Marama (Dorothy Lamour), and a daughter he has never seen before. As he is hunted down, the island is struck by a once-in-a-lifetime hurricane.
"The Hurricane" 1937 movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WI_enLFGG8
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Jon Hall would later star in the American TV series "Ramar of the Jungle" (1952-54).
A wartime book showing how to make toys out of wood scraps at a time when commerically made toys were almost impossible to obtain. This charming cover, no designer given, is rather reminiscent of the 'Berte Process' colour dust jackets that helped popularise Batsford's books at the time.
He's just a man in a rubber suit but very convincing for his day. The Gill-Man is an ingenious and complicated costume created after eight-and-a-half months' research by Universal-International makeup chief Bud Westmore and his staff. And the creature who lumbered around the lot dressed in the foam-rubber suit is an ex-Marine named Ben Chapman who played the part of the Gill-Man in the 1954 film. Costume designer Milicent Patrick had to change his shape 76 times before her sketches were finally approved. It was then up to Bud Westmore and Jack Kevan to actually create the costume which had to be completely waterproof because much of the action takes place underwater. Then, too, it had to be light and flexible enough so that Chapman could move easily and with realism in his part.
Features photographs from the American International film, “At the Earth’s Core,” starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure.
“One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most unusual and intriguing locales is right here on Earth – in the underground land of Pellucidar, a forbidding prehistoric world that forms the background for AT THE EARTH’S CORE.
“The excitement began shortly after Dr. Abner Perry built ‘The Iron Mole,’ a huge rocket-powered burrowing machine designed to pierce the earth’s crust and explore the secrets deep beneath the surface.
“Along with David Innes, the handsome young backer of the project, Perry set the giant machine in motion for a test bore . . .only something went very wrong. Totally out of control and burrowing at incredible speed, the pair cut clear through to the center of the earth – breaking into Pellucidar, a hidden land, more strange and terrifying than the certain death they’d expected.
“Just out of their craft for scant moments, the two hapless explorers were taken prisoner by a tribe of loathsome, monstrous creatures who held all humans as slaves. But Perry and David soon learned that even their menacing captors were controlled by a greater power. . . the Mahars” [From the blurb on the dust jacket]
A world dominated by cheesy special effects!
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rltFst5h14
[Note: Peter Cushing went from the ridiculous to the sublime the very next year, playing Grand Moff Tarkin in charge of the Death Star in "Star Wars" (1977)]
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
“The Goddess of Ganymede” is a swashbuckling, fantastic adventure novel in the Edgar Rice Burroughs tradition. The action involves an American soldier of fortune, Adam Thane, whose spaceflight terminates on the moon of the planet Jupiter – a world made to order for the adventurer.
If you seek escape reading, there is action and swordplay to be encountered as fast as the pages of this book can be turned. Ganymede is a moon of winged men, strange and ferocious creatures, and an evil, deathless race.
“The Goddess of Ganymede” is the first science-fantasy novel from the pen of young Illinois writer, Michael D. Resnick. The six illustrations and dust wrapper are the work of Neal MacDonald, Jr. Both of these men are widely known and acclaimed in Burroughs fan circles.
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In the 1960s and early 1970s, Michael Resnick (1942-2020) wrote over 200 erotic adult novels under various pseudonyms and edited three men's magazines and seven tabloid newspapers. For over a decade he wrote a weekly column about horse racing and a monthly column about purebred collies, which he and his wife bred and showed. His wife was an uncredited collaborator on much of his science fiction and a co-author on two movie scripts they sold, based on his novels "Santiago" and "The Widowmaker.." His daughter Laura Resnick is a science fiction and fantasy author.
-- Wikipedia
From the blurb on the dustjacket:
Had Northwest Smith, the famous outlaw of the spaceways, been able to foresee the future, he would not have shielded the frightened, scarlet-clad girl from the wild mob pursuing her through the narrow streets of Lakkdarol, Earth’s latest colony on Mars. “Shambleau! Shambleau!” the crowd cried with loathing and disgust, but Smith drove them off with his blaster and took the exhausted girl to his quarters. There was no hair upon her face – neither brows nor lashes; but what lay hidden beneath the tight scarlet turban bound around her head?
So begins one of the strangest, and possibly the most famous, of stories by C. L. Moore. When it first appeared “Shambleau” was acclaimed by readers, authors, and editors as the debut of a truly gifted talent in the field of fiction writing. It introduced the very popular character Northwest Smith, hardbitten roamer of the spaceways. Miss Moore was to live up to expectation when she followed “Shambleau” with other stirring and beautiful tales about Smith, such as “The Tree of Life” and the haunting “Scarlet Dream,” both of which are included in this volume.
As though the creation of Northwest Smith were not enough for one gifted author, Miss Moore next offered her readers Jirel of Joiry whose fiery personality was a refreshingly sharp contrast to the icy calm of Northwest Smith. Joiry’s lady first appeared in the memorable “Black God’s Kiss,” a unique tale which describes her strange adventures in another dimension, a nightmarish land that lies far below the dungeons of her defeated castle. In quest of a weapon to wipe away the taunting smile from the face of her conqueror, Guillaume, Joiry’s lady comes upon the shore of a black lake filled with fallen stars; she passes over an invisible bridge into a forbidding temple where her quest ends in a dramatic fashion.
The publication of “Shambleau and Others” is an event that readers have been demanding for many years. It is a rich, colorful collection which offers the early writing of a genuine literary talent which was to develop its craftsmanship until today, as the wife and collaborator of Henry Kuttner, it has yielded such memorable books as “The Fairy Chessmen,” “Judgment Night,” “Robots Have No Tails,” and “Mutant.”
A second collection of Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry stories, as yet untitled, is scheduled for publication sometime next year.
From the blurb on the dustjacket:
The stories in STARDRIFT represent the finest that Emil Petaja has written in the genre over a period of thirty years. They were selected by the author, after three years of meticulous consideration as prime examples of his lifetime of studying, absorbing and digesting all the great fantastic literature of the world. Emil Petaja is an ardent student of world mythology. Those who enjoyed his KALEVALA novels, based on the Finnish epic, LAND OF HEROES, will be pleased to find on Otava story herein.
There is a touch of Saki or John Collier in such stories as FOUND OBJECTS and DARK BALCONY. ONLY GONE BEFORE (the title was taken right off an old Welsh tombstone) and DARK HOLLOW are pure Lovecraftian horror. A DOG’S BEST FRIEND makes a grim social comment. MOON FEVER and PEACEMONGER are science-fiction with a twist. DODECAGON GARDEN examines what a hip planet might be, if . . .
We are proud to present his mixed grill of wolfbane and wonder by Emil Petaja in this fine limited hardcover edition, illustrated with newly discovered drawings by the master fantasy artist, Hannes Bok. Forest J. Ackerman’s penetrating introduction adds the final touch. . .
Hannes Bok was perhaps the most truly original and imaginative illustrator of his time. His superb technique and his boundless magical flights put his work far beyond the purely commercial. Bok died in 1964, yet occasionally unpublished wonders turn up, as those presented here by arrangement with BOKANALIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Early reprint edition with cover art by J. Allen St. John, which
includes a 4-page article by Robert H. Davis, “How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales.”
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
“The story ‘Tarzan and the Ant Men’ relates how Tarzan in his wanderings in unknown Africa comes to a great thorn forest, impenetrable, according to native belief, and shunned because it is the abode of evil spirits.
“The undaunted Tarzan, however, finds a way through the awful thorns and emerges into an amazingly fertile country—the forest being really an enormous hedge. Here he discovers a race of pigmies about eighteen inches high, fairly advanced in civilization and living in vast community houses resembling ant hills. Tarzan sees many curious things, and has numerous startling adventures.
“TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN is regular Tarzan stuff, but yet it’s different. It has novelty, originality, and the intensity of interest which made his previous stories such enormous successes.”
“Crescent Earth low over the lunar horizon. This photograph, one of a series, was exposed through the 250-mm lens. The CSM was above a point near latitude 24° S, longitude 99° E, when this picture was taken. Steep slopes on the left horizon are the southwestern inner rim of Humboldt Crater near latitude 25° S, longitude 78° E.”
Above per Chapter 3 “Photographic Summary”, pg. 3-24 of the Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report (NASA SP-289), at:
an.rsl.wustl.edu/apollo/data/A15/resources/photo_summary_...
Credit: Apollo Analyst's Notebook/Planetary Data System (PDS) Geosciences Node
The photograph was taken during revolution 70.
However, the following linked "Apollo Mission 15 Lunar Photography Index Map", which correctly ‘plots’ the footprint of this series of photographs (frames 13266 - 13270), reveals that it’s the northwestern inner rim of Humboldt Crater on the horizon, not the southwestern inner rim. The direction of photography generally being westerly:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/apolloindex/apollo1...
Credit: LPI website
An incorrectly reversed 'mini-panorama' from this series of photographs was featured on the dustjacket cover for Apollo 15 CMP Alfred Worden's book, "Hello Earth: Greetings From Endeavour". How’d that get by Al?
Good thing it's a dramatic photograph, making the errors more palatable/less inexcusable. 😕 😉
A page from the fine trade journal "Illustration" issued by the printers and engravers André, Sleigh and Anglo in c1918 and just before they were 'merged' with Sun Engraving of Watford. The journal was used to highlight the company's expertise and technological prowess and so it also states the paper and inks used; in this case those by John Dickinson's of King's Langley for the paper and Winstone's of London for the inks.
For this short article on the book jacket they've chosen to illustrate it with a work that isn't credited here but that is by Macdonald "Max" Gill - an aritst and designer who was associated with Sun Engraving and the printer businessman behind the company Edward Hunter. The artwork is very much indicative of two of Max Gill's specialities that were much in demand at the time - pictorial maps and lettering. By 1918 Max had not long finished the first of his celebrated pictorial maps for London Underground (the "Wonderground" map as it became known) and he was busy undertaking the commission to design the lettering to be used on all British military gravestones as part of his work for the Imperial (now Commonwelath) War Graves Commission.
“Every night it was the same. He would remain barricaded in his house, the phonograph going full blast, an ample supply of whiskey on hand. But he could never forget that they were out there, waiting: The plague victims – the vampires who had taken over his world.
“For months Robert Neville had endured the horror, wondering why he was immune to a disease that had turned everyone else into creatures of nightmare. It occurred to him that this very disease might be the basis for all of history’s fearful legends – he didn’t know. Yet it was true that these 20th-century vampires followed the classic rules, so at least Neville was able to establish a system of survival.
“During the day he repaired any damage they might have done to his fortress the night before, making sure the generator and water supply were still protected. He hung crosses and mirrors, and strings of garlic taken from the hothouse he had set up. He spent long hours preparing wooden stakes, and hunting for the monsters’ hidden sleeping places.
“Always, no matter what he did, he kept track of the sun – knowing he had to be home again before it set.
“At time went by, Neville learned to live with the terror . . . but not with the loneliness of his existence. More than once he considered opening the front door to them and ending his torment.
“But no, he could not, would not die that way. He was the last of his kind, and he meant to survive. . . .” [From the blurb on the dustjacket]
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“I Am Legend” became the basis for 3 motion pictures: “The Last Man on Earth” (1964) with Vincent Price, “The Omega Man” (1971) with Charlton Heston, and “I Am Legend” (2007) with Will Smith. It was also the inspiration behind George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” (1968). The concept of a worldwide viral apocalypse giving rise to zombies originated in Matheson’s book, first published as a paperback in 1954.
“The intensely dramatic novel of the American Southwest, from which the David O. Selznick technicolor film was made, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck & Joseph Cotton. A Forum Motion Picture Edition.”
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
“When the stage coach deposited the shabby, barefooted girl at Paradise Flats, no one saw anything about Pearl Chavez to indicate that she was to become a legend. She was just a waif whom rich, old Senator McCanles was befriending.
“The McCanles were a strange clan. There was the Senator, only five foot two, fantastically rich, a political power in the new state. There were his four tall sons: calm Jesse, a lawyer in spite of his father; Lewt, spoiled, handsome, reckless; methodical Gill; and Ruck, whose mind had never grown up to his huge body. And there was Laura Belle, the Senator’s wife – twenty years of ranching could not make her forget her gentle upbringing in pre-Civil War Texas.
“This powerful story is built from conflicts – Pearl’s fight for security vs. Lewt’s desire for freedom mirror in miniature the struggle between the civilized ways of the town and the railroad, and the old, wild ways of the rancher. Here is a poignantly unforgettable love story laid against a richly varied, authentic Western background.
“‘Duel in the Sun’ has been made into a brilliant technicolor film by David O. Selznick, starring Jennifer Jones (as Pearl Chavez), Gregory Peck (as Lewton ‘Lewt’ McCanles) and Joseph Cotton (as Jesse McCanles).”
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrP_CtoeO9E
No illustrator's credit for this one. The lady appears to be emitting copious amounts of steam from her head.
And she's wearing a strapless gown. Which must mean something (click on).
No printing date; East O'The Sun by Kathlyn Rhodes. unknown Artist. Great Skull cover. Soft cover with dust Jacket.
"The Man in the High Castle" takes a glimpse into an alternate history and what life may have been like had the Allied Powers lost WWII. As noted in the comments section below, the book has been adapted by Amazon into an original series that is scheduled for release on November 20, 2015. Here are links to the TV trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzayf9GpXCI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjs8xVaAC98
In addition to 44 published novels, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
From the write-up on the dust jacket:
Here's a story that opens serenely enough with nothing but a quiet diamond theft to break the ice. But when the startling hard-headed detective sent to cover the case lets loose with his steam roller methods he uncovers a hot bed of crime, hate and murder that centers about the Leggett household -- especially upon Gabrielle Leggett, the girl with the mysterious haunted face and the pointed ears. A destructive fate pursues her wherever she goes. Following her amazing career and always one step behind is Mr. Hammett's unequalled detective. He's a new kind with ways of his own -- not exactly subtle but calculated to get the best results with a minimum of effort. And in the end he succeeds in cornering what is perhaps one of the most remarkable criminals of fiction.
Doubleday & Company, Inc. Book Club Edition 1959. Jacket design by Richard Powers.
Jacket design influenced by the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian.
J. B. Lippincott Company. Book Club Edition 1961. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. A Main Line Mystery.
“The great romantic story from which the 20th Century-Fox film starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine was made.”
“Jane Eyre” is an American film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles who also stars as Mr. Rochester. The screenplay was written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, and director Stevenson.
Cover reveal for Detective Tom Stone - A Nitty Gritty Christmas. Look for a mid-August book release. This is a sneak peek at the dust jacket for the first book in the Tom Stone Series. Written by Don Simkovich and Lon Casler Bixby. Check out the Tom Stone FaceBook page -https://www.facebook.com/TomStoneDetectiveStories/
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"The Human Comedy," Saroyan's first novel, is the story of an American family in wartime, and in particular of Homer Macauley, the fastest messenger in San Joaquin valley.
With all the qualities of warmth, cheer, and humanity which have endeared Saroyan to his reading public, "The Human Comedy" abounds in unforgettable scenes. Homer running the Two-Twenty hurdles; little Ulysses imprisoned in the bear trap in Covington's store; old-time telegraph operator Willie Grogan, with a bottle in the desk drawer to fuzz the sharp reality of the everflowing messages of love and hope and pain and death; Spangler, with a love for the whole world and every living thing; Homer's older brother Marcus singing, as the troop train in which he sits hurtles away from home.
Saroyan has done many things, but he has here done something which even his oldest friends scarcely dared to predict -- a wartime novel of the home front which succeeds in capturing, and which nowhere oversteps, the modesty of ordinary human beings. It is a very simple novel. It is a very great achievement.
Whitman Publishing. A reissue of a 1945 edition. This version came out in 1951 to coincide with the Disney film's first run. Only the dust jacket features Disney art. The inside of the jacket comments that "The picture on the cover shows a scene from Walt Disney's full-length Technicolor cartoon production of 'Alice in Wonderland' "
Interior illustrations by Linda Card. You can barely see Mr. Carroll's byline in the dark space under the word "Wonderland". But the copyright W.D.P. is more visible near the bottom.
This is my original well-used copy. There would soon be a Whitman Disney Peter Pan with a beautiful cover painting and Disney illustrations inside and following the plot of the Disney film.
“On a strange and savage coast of the Arctic north of Siberia, a son was born to a white doctor and his wife. Their only friend among the wild tribes of the north was the doctor’s educated Indian companion Mokuyi. His parents killed by savages, the white child was brought up by Mokuyi and taught the English of his fathers as well as the Indian arts of hunting and fighting. Named Kioga, the Sea Hawk, the boy grew up to be chief of his tribe, half savage, half civilized. How Kioga comes to love a white girl, how he wins her from her wealthy and jealous suitor, how he escapes the fury of his savage tribesmen, make a tale that is full of sheer romance.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]