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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.]
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.
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).
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.
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.
Eric Kroll (editor) - The Wonderful World of Bill Ward
King of the Glamour Girls
Taschen Books, 2006
Cover Artist: Bill Ward; circa 1960
Missing caption: "Oh, Lord Molesby... I was beginning to think you'd never notice me!"
“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.
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.
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)]
“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
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.
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.”
"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.
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).
J. B. Lippincott Company. Book Club Edition 1961. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. A Main Line Mystery.
“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. 😕 😉
“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.
No printing date; East O'The Sun by Kathlyn Rhodes. unknown Artist. Great Skull cover. Soft cover with dust Jacket.
Doubleday & Company, Inc. Book Club Edition 1959. Jacket design by Richard Powers.
Jacket design influenced by the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian.
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.
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.
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.
“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]
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
In just 20 cataclysmic months, Adolf Hitler had completed his lightninglike subjugation of virtually all of Europe. Now, he intended to reach his destiny in the east by invading America in the west. . .
What if Hitler had invaded America? This startling novel, written before Pearl Harbor, is the provocative answer.
In 1940, the Nazi war machine was ravaging Europe. Most Americans wanted no part of the foreign conflict, but wondered what might happen if we maintained our neutrality. When would Hitler finally be satisfied? Could the Wehrmacht conceivably attack the United States? Veteran journalist Fred Allhoff interviewed military experts of the day, and his informed scenario, serialized in "Liberty," sold more copies of that magazine than ever before in its publishing history.
"Lightning in the Night" assumes that England has fallen; America stands alone as the last bastion of democracy. By diplomatic coups and sheer bravado, the "Greater German Reich" annexes British, Dutch and French colonies throughout the Americas. Hitler acquires heavily fortified bases within striking distance of our Atlantic Coast . And then. . .
The action-packed plot follows Lt. Douglas Norton of Naval Intelligence and his fiancee Peggy O'Liam as they witness the siege of Seattle, the bombing of New York, and the fall of Baltimore. Tank warfare ranges across Pennsylvania; the Nazi flag is raised over Washington, D.C. The story moves from the pre-dawn Pacific to a concentration camp in Maryland; from a naval battle in the Straits of Magellan to the paratroop invasion of the Panama Canal -- until Adolf Hitler and the President of the United States confront each other across the peace table in Cincinnati. And yet many of Alhoff's prophecies are remarkably accurate, beginning with his forecast that war would actually begin with a Japanese attack on Hawaii! And his surprise conclusion, melodramatic and far-fetched by 1940's standards, today seems almost uncomfortably realistic.
Now collected in book form for the first time, together with the original "Liberty" illustrations, "Lightning in the Night" is a unique glimpse of the world of 1940 -- and a chillingly authentic account of the world that could have existed in 1945!
Jacket Art by Hal Siegel.
This is the third book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "The Fabulous Riverboat."
"The Dark Design" continues the adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Peter Frigate, and millions of others, from various times in the history of Earth, who have all been mysteriously resurrected on a strange planet known as Riverworld. Their problem is to find their way to the headwaters of the fabulous river, and to find the enigmatic beings who have accomplished their resurrection.
A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001 but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat." In 2010, a 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld was produced and released by Syfy (formerly The Sci-fi Channel) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The protagonist is Matt Ellman, an American war reporter, played by Tahmoh Penikett. The main villain is Richard Francis Burton, although in the books he is the protagonist and is written more as a hero than a villain.