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1951; Murder gone Mad by Philip MacDonald. unknown artist of the dust Jacket. Love the simpicity and the use of color !!
1954; The Blue Mauritius by Vernon Warren. Cover art by Jas. E. McConnell. Hardcover with dustjacket.
no printing date; The Cat and the Canary by John Willard. Hard cover with dust jacket, artist unknown.
In a connected series of short stories, 28 in all, Bradbury chronicles the human colonization of Mars. The stories originally appeared in the science fiction magazines of the 1940s. The planet Mars is a strange and breathtaking world where humans don’t belong. They are escaping a troubled Earth and their arrival on Mars leads, eventually, to plague and conflict and to the near extinction of native Martians. But by the final chapters of the book – or as Bradbury describes it, “a book of stories pretending to be a novel” – the humans themselves face extinction. This is certainly one of Bradbury’s best works, which became the basis for a TV mini-series in 1980:
André Maurois - Ariel
Penguin Books 1, July 1935
Cover Design: Edward Young
This paperback edition, reissued in July 1985, is reproduced here in facsimile, and is published to mark Penguin's fiftieth anniversary.
1953; Taartjes voor ontbijt [Candy for breakfast] by Gwen Davenport. Dust Jacket art by Dutch artist Alfred Mazure.
The photo on the cover is that of Black Eagle, Assiniboin Chief in 1908.
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952) was an American ethnologist and photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples. In 1906, J. P. Morgan provided Curtis with $75,000 to produce a series on Native Americans. This work was to be in 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs and the project was to last more than 20 years.
222 complete sets of Curtis’ “The North American Indian” were eventually published. Curtis' goal was not just to photograph, but to document, as much of Native American traditional life as possible before that way of life disappeared. He wrote in the introduction to his first volume in 1907: "The information that is to be gathered ... respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost." Curtis made over 10,000 wax cylinder recordings of Native American language and music. He took over 40,000 photographic images from over 80 tribes. He recorded tribal lore and history, and he described traditional foods, housing, garments, recreation, ceremonies, and funeral customs. He wrote biographical sketches of tribal leaders, and his material, in most cases, is the only written recorded history although there is still a rich oral tradition that documents history.
Though Curtis was largely forgotten at the time of his death, interest in his work revived in the 1970s. Major exhibitions of Curtis photographs were presented and his work was featured in several anthologies on Native American photography published in the early 1970s. Original printings of “The North American Indian” began to fetch high prices at auction. In 1972, a complete set sold for $20,000. Five years later, another set was auctioned for $60,500. On April 10, 2012, during an auction at Christies, New York, a set of “The North American Indian” was sold for a record $2.88 million.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Nathan Machtey, "Frankenstein" by Mary W. Shelley. Photoplay edition. Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket, ca 1931
No printing Date; Voor wie de Klok luidt [For whom the Bell tolls] by Ernest Hemingway. Dutch edition with dust Jacket by Rein van Looij
Must be cold out, she doesn't have a strapless gown on (unless it's under that jacket).
Illustration by "Taylor".
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. Four men embark on a three-day canoe trip down a particularly wild section of the river. They are, with one exception, seemingly average suburban Americans: a mutual funds salesman, a supervisor in a soft-drink company, and a successful art director in a consulting firm who is the story's narrator. For them the trip represents a break in the domestic routine, a chance for adventure with few real risks, and the last occasion to see a beautiful valley unvisited and free before the river is dammed up. Their leader, an enthusiastic outdoorsman and champion archer, is obsessed by the desire to pit himself against nature.
When, the morning of the second day, two of the group are attacked viciously and perversely by mountaineers, a mildly adventurous canoe trip explodes into a nightmare of horror and murder. Men stalk and are stalked by other men and the treacherous river becomes a graveyard for those without the strength or the luck to survive. The narrator, forced to assume the leadership of his group and to pursue a dangerous multiple deception, must call upon all his resources to try to achieve deliverance.
A critically successful yet disturbing movie based on the book was produced in 1972 and it starred Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox. The most uplifting scene in the movie is where Ronny Cox plays "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-playing country boy.
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The most disgusting scene in the movie is the notorious male rape scene, "Squeal Like a Pig," with Ned Beatty doing the squealing.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery . . .
The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner" is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner" is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; it also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations -- and hopes -- which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage.
A native of the Tidewater region of Virginia, William Styron grew up not far from Southampton County, where Nat Turner's revolt took place. The story of Nat Turner was the subject of the first novel that the author wanted to write, and he has maintained a special interest in American Negro slavery ever since. He has written three other novels, "Lie Down in Darkness," "The Long March," and "Set This House on Fire."
This is the first one-volume edition of two classic works, "Houdini's Escapes" (1930) and "Houdini's Magic" (1932). These books provided the most complete description available of Houdini's feats and how he performed them. Walter Gibson prepared them after Houdini's death in 1926, from the magician's private notebooks and with the assistance of his widow, Beatrice, and of Bernard Ernst, then president of the Society of American Magicians.
"It will soon become apparent to the reader that, although Houdini was daring, he never took an uncalculated risk. He would not accept a challenge unless he was sure he could meet it. He was physically fit, an athlete, and a strong swimmer. Yet his assistants were poised to rescue him if he didn't surface on schedule from an underwater box. A dozen less careful performers have been drowned, or seriously injured, because they attempted this feat without sufficient knowledge, or without taking the necessary precautions." -- Milbourne Christopher
Author Walter B. Gibson, after completing "Houdini's Escapes and Houdini's Magic" in the early 1930s, turned to fiction writing, creating the famed pulp hero of Lamont Cranston, also known as the Shadow. Under the pen name of Maxwell Grant, he wrote novel-length stories for "The Shadow Magazine" for more than fifteen years. These novels were adapted for the Shadow radio program and, today, they have been reprinted in paperback and hardcover editions. Under his own name, Walter Gibson has written many other books in the fields of magic, games and the occult.
The A. C. Gilbert Company was once one of the largest toy companies in the world. Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961) founded the company in 1909 as a company that provided supplies to magic shows. Then, in 1911, Gilbert invented the Erector Set and introduced it two years later. Beginning in 1922, A. C. Gilbert made chemistry sets and other sets for budding scientists. Microscope kits came in 1934, then a line of inexpensive reflector telescopes. In 1938, Gilbert purchased the American Flyer, a struggling manufacturer of toy trains. Gilbert re-designed the entire product line, producing 1:64 scale trains running on O gauge track. After WWII, Gilbert introduced S gauge model railroad kits. Although these new trains were popular, Lionel outsold American Flyer nearly 2 to 1. Once the largest employer in New Haven, Connecticut, the Gilbert Company struggled after the death of its founder in 1961 and went out of business in 1967. American Flyer was sold to Lionel. The brand name on its Erector Set and microscope products was retained by subsequent manufacturers. [Source: Wikipedia]
No printing date; Moord achterstevoren [The Chinese Orange Mystery] by Ellery Queen. Cover art by Auke A. Tadema
The source of the artwork for this Book Club Edition was the official poster for the 1971 film, which starred Sean Connery as James Bond. The movie’s female leads were Jill St. John as Tiffany Case and Lana Wood as Plenty O’Toole.
“Millions of dollars worth of diamonds are being smuggled around the world through a pipeline protected by death-dealing American gangsters and sophisticated millionaires. British secret agent James Bond, with the rare double-O prefix, that gives him the license to kill, is ordered to join the Spangled Gang, expose it and wipe it out. . .” [From the dustjacket]
This is the second book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "To Your Scattered Bodies Go."
The planet was called Riverworld -- huge and mysterious, with one central river that flowed for countless thousands of miles from a hidden source to an unknown end. But worse than the violation of all known physical laws that the planet itself displayed was the mystery of how -- and why -- all humanity had been reborn along the shores of the great river. For reborn they were, every last soul, from the first prehistoric humans to the latter-day inhabitants of the Moon.
Sam Clemens is one who finds himself reborn on Riverworld, and with a shipload of reincarnated Vikings and a blood brother whose first life was spent hunting saber tooth tigers and mastodons, he has sailed the great river as he did the Mississippi of old. But his voyage comes to an untimely end when a great meteorite plunges into the stream and he is knocked unconscious. When he comes to, the mysterious aliens who for their own reasons established the Riverworld have contrived to repair all the damage caused by the disaster. Only now one new element has been introduced -- iron. And with iron at hand, Clemens can build his own paddle steamer, and on this fabulous riverboat he can make his epic journey to the headwaters of the river and the heart of the panet-sized mystery which is the Riverworld.
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.
H. H. Munro - The She-Wolf and Other Stories
(A Saki Sampler)
Bantam 143 (DJ), 1948
Cover Artist: Norbert James ("Bert") Lannon
"Horror and High-Jinks"
This Bantam issue from 1948 is a Superior Reprint (M656, 1945) with a Bantam dust jacket. There are no Bantam logos or insignias on the dust jacket, but the words "A Bantam Book" appear on the back flap of the dust jacket.
A 1980s book of fables with wonderful illustrations by Arnold Lobel.
Fables.
Written and Illustrated by Arnold Lobel
Published by Scholastic Inc; First Edition (1980)
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"Messiah" by Gore Vidal will arouse anger and resentment in many people, it will shock them as "The Way of All Flesh" shocked them when it was first published; it will arouse argument and controversy, such as raged around Huxley's "Brave New World" and Orwell's "1984;" it will grip people while they read it and it will make them think.
Brain washing has become a recognized weapon; will soul washing come next? Will all the isms besetting humanity drive it into the arms of a new Messiah? Can television, advertising copy and high pressure publicity by exploiting man's inward religious urge lead him to anything, even death in preference to life? Can this happen here? Can it happen now?
These are some of the basic elements which make "Messiah" by Gore Vidal an absorbing, frightening and stimulating experience. This extraordinarily imaginative novel has a story of motion and action told in simple, economic words; it satirizes men and techniques, ridiculous in themselves, yet sinister in their intent and singleness of purpose; it gives a horribly real and vivid picture of a world that may come.
Art by John Coleman Burroughs.
Deep in the heart of Africa rises a mighty cone-shaped mountain, an extinct volcano, in the huge crater of which lies "The Forbidden City of Ashair" where Atka, the cruel queen, rules: and Brulor, the false god, holds forth in his mysterious temple at the bottom of a great lake of crystal clearness.
To reach this inaccessible stronghold two safaris endure hardships and perils that bring death to some and high adventure to all. Love and hate and jealousy and intrigue play their parts in a battle of wits and endurance where courage and loyalty contend with duplicity, cruelty, superstition, and savagery.
One safari is bent on the rescue of the son of its leader from the clutches of Atka and the false god; the other, headed by a wily and unscrupulous oriental, seeks only The Father of Diamonds guarded by Brulor and his priests and Atka and her plumed warriors. There are hand-to-hand encounters with terrifying marine monsters among the wrecks of ancient galleys at the bottom of the great lake that spreads across the floor of the crater of Tuen-Baka.
"Wallace Memorial Edition -- BEN-HUR: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace with halftone autographed portrait of General Wallace. Gorgeous jacket in colors and gold -- The Chariot Race -- and illustrated pictorial end sheets, 560 pages. . . It is a thrilling grand story and the handsome book of the year. The picture on the other side is a copy of the jacket . . ."
(Description on the back of the postcard)
The picture of the chariot race which first appeared on the dust jacket of this 1908 memorial edition of the book had an enormous influence on later film adaptations of the story in 1925, 1959 and 2016.
This book presents an anthology of gems selected by Peter Haining from the pages of Weird Tales. The book presents them as facsimile reproductions of the actual pages of the magazine. According to fantasy enthusiasts, Weird Tales was the first and the best of all the fantasy periodicals. It spanned thirty years of publication as a pulp from 1923-1954.
Some of the authors appearing in Haining's anthology are Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, and nearly every other major figure who contributed to Weird Tales.
Cover artist Margaret Brundage (1900-1976) sold 66 original pulp cover illustrations to Weird Tales from 1933 to 1945. Her covers were signed “M. Brundage” and were very popular with readers, but most of the public wasn’t aware the artist was female. When puritanical social forces complained about the overt sexuality of the art, the editor finally revealed that the artist was a woman, hoping to mollify the perceived offensiveness of her work.
As a woman in a field dominated by men, Brundage brought a unique aesthetic to pulp art. Most of her work was created with pastels on illustration board and often featured fantasy scenes of women trapped in sexually vulnerable situations. Brundage continued to create fantasy scenes in pastels for the rest of her life but was unable to find a steady publisher of her work after the publisher of Weird Tales moved to New York City in 1938. After a divorce from a drunken husband and the death of her only son, Brundage’s later years were spent in relative poverty. Check out the “Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists” for more on Brundage (www.pulpartists.com/Brundage.html).
Kepes, G. (ed.), Structure in Art and in Science, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965.
Essays by: Max Bill, Jacob Bronowski, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Held, H.L.C. Jaffe, Richard Lippold, F. Maki & M. Ohtaka, Pier Luigi Nervi, I.A. Richards, Eduard F. Sekler, Cyril Stanley Smith, Alison & Peter Smithson, Margit Staber, Lancelot L. Whyte
First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to "act normal." Now the government wants its brainchild back - for its own insane ends.
"Firestarter" was adapted into a movie in 1984:
The subject of motorway construction in London, especially during the 1960s after the proposals for widespread construction of such highways across the city, was very contentious. In reality only elements of the 'Westway' M40 extension that pushed through inner west London were constructed - the clamour of opposition (and one suspects the cost) finally told against other plans such as the A1 Archway scheme. The cover is illustrated by the great artist David Gentleman (who did the Charing Cross tube station murals for London Underground) and is very of his style - it also rather neatly captures the scale of Westway and the modern UK road signs.
A charming and unusual wartime edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám issued by F Lewis in Essex, England, published in 1944 in a limited edition. It was printed by W S Cowell, the well known printers of Ipswich, on hand made paper. I suspect this must have been quite an achievement given wartime shortages of supplies, paper and inks.
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a loose translation by Edward FitzGerald made in 1859 from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". This edition is illustrated by the artist Elijah Albert Cox (1876 – 1955) who had trained with Brangwyn. He was commissioned by, amongst others, London Transport for whom he produced posters.
Kepes, G. (ed.), Module Proportion Symmetry Rhythm, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966.
Essays by: Lawrence B. Anderson, Rudolf Arnheim, John Cage, Ezra D. Ehrenkrantz, ANthony Hill, Erno Lendvai, Arthur L. Loeb, Richard P. Lohse, Francois Molnar, Philip Morrison, Stanislaw Ulam, C.H. Waddington
Walter Gibson was an accomplished magician as well as an author. Under the Street & Smith house name of Maxwell Grant, he created and wrote 282 of the 325 novels about the most famous crimefighter to battle evil-doers in the pages of pulp magazines -- "The Shadow." So in creating his other crimefighting hero, "Norgil, the Magician," Gibson combined his talents as a mystery writer and a leading authority on magic. "Magic and mystery are so closely interwoven," he once wrote, "that it is hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins."
Stories about Norgil first appeared in pulp magazines such as "Crime Busters" and "Mystery Magazine" during the 1930's and 40's. Each story employs a famous stage illusion as a plot device, and Norgil is a solitary representation of several real-life magicians who made those tricks popular. These long-lost stories are collected here for the first time in book form.
Dust jacket for book by Yugoslavian writer and dissenter Mihajlo Mihajlov. His book Moscow Summer is critical of the Soviet Union. In 1966 he was arrested and sentenced to jail by the Soviet authorities. The book has a foreword by Myron Kolatch, the editor of the New Leader, a publication that Lubalin designed (p.67). The design of Moscow Summer relies on the mon umental power of a block of tightly spaced typography redolent of prison bars, and in its utilization of an unusually vibrant colour palette. Client: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Date: 1965. www.uniteditions.com
“This novel portrays in an absorbing way one of the very greatest events in American history, the building of the first transcontinental railway. It is an epic of titanic labor, Man pitted against Nature in the shock of combat. Across the great trail falls the majestic shadow of Lincoln, the Builder, Lincoln who foresaw that an empire would spring to life with the first magnetic touch of the steel shod hoof of the Iron Horse. Against the background of the thrilling life of the Old West is thrown a vivid picture of the terrific building race between the two roads which were to unite and make one: Of the battles with the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, of the bad, mad towns which mushroomed and decayed as the rails thrust forward like shining rapiers: Of the heroic exploits of unconquerable men: the whole mellowed with a love story of the most appealing charm.” [Quoting the blurb on the dust jacket]
“William Fox’s “The Iron Horse: A Romance of the East and the West,” a John Ford Production, Three Years in the Making. The Characters and the Players include:
Davy Brandon (George O’Brien)
Miriam Marsh (Madge Bellamy)
Abraham Lincoln (Charles Edward Bull)
Thomas Marsh ( Will Walling)
Deroux (Fred Kohler)
Peter Jesson (Cyril Chadwick) . . .
. . . And a regiment of United States troops and cavalry, 3,000 railway workmen, 1,000 Chinese laborers, 800 Pawnee, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, 2,800 horses, 1,300 buffalo, 10,000 Texas steers. (Special Note: The actual old-time locomotives and equipment which figured in the building of the Trans-Continental Railway are used throughout “The Iron Horse” – “Jupiter,” of the Central Pacific, and “119,” of the Union Pacific.) [As stated on the rear panel of the dust jacket]
Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm
Cardinal Books C-31, 1951
Cover Artist: Stanley Meltzoff
"More powerful than a woman's love... more binding than a man's word... It was DOPE!"
The dust wrapper to a charming book - a classic on English pubs, written by Maurice Gorham and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. This edition - 1949 - was a revision of the real classic, the 1939 edition, most copies of which (and the original plates) had been lost in the London Blitz of 1940/1 when the offices of Cassells', the publishers of Belle Sauvage Yard, was destroyed along with many other publishing houses in the vicinity. This makes the first edition quite rare. The pub shown is the old Warwick Castle in Maida Vale a pub that is, amazingly, still with us.