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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 !!
Must be cold out, she doesn't have a strapless gown on (unless it's under that jacket).
Illustration by "Taylor".
From the blurbs on the dust jacket:
Thief, pirate, mercenary, bandit, general, and king: few characters in fantasy literature are as popular or enduring as Robert E. Howard's Conan. Now the very best of these classic tales are gathered in this deluxe commemorative edition. Featuring an introduction by Spectrum's Arnie Fenner, a memorial by the legendary H. P. Lovecraft, and stunning full-color illustrations by Brom and Frank Frazetta, this book is a virtual treasure-trove for long-time fans and new readers alike.
"Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of Fantasy and most of his Conan tales seem to almost fall over themselves in their need to get out." -- Stephen King.
"Forget Schwarzenegger and the movies. This is pure pulp fiction from the 1930s, before political correctness and focus groups dictated the direction of our art. Swords spin, entrails spill, and women swoon." -- Men's Health Magazine
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) wrote over three-hundred stories of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction, all packed with raw power and unbridled emotion.
Howard ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure. He is best known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such characters as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
This book collects nine of Howard's most electrifying Conan adventures. Featuring warring armies, devilish creatures, beautiful women, and haunted jungles -- all wonderfully illustrated in color by fantasy art masters Brom and Frank Frazetta -- this is Conan at his bravest and Robert E. Howard at his best.
H.G. Wells - A Short History of the World
Penguin Books 31, 1936
Cover Artist: Edward Young
The earliest Penguin Books were colour-coded: orange for fiction, green for crime, dark blue for biographies, cerise for travel and adventure, red for plays, yellow for 'miscellaneous' and later violet for essays and belles-lettres and grey for world affairs. But there was one other colour – lilac. This signified history and was only used twice: for the 1936 edition of A Short History of the World and for H.C. Armstrong's Grey Wolf in January 1937. After the launch of Pelican Books in May 1937, it was never used again.
Back cover of dust jacket includes a checklist of the first 40 Penguin Books
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
The most disgusting scene in the movie is the notorious male rape scene, "Squeal Like a Pig," with Ned Beatty doing the squealing.
No printing date; Koning Alcohol [John Barleycorn] by Jack London. Cover art by Corina. Paperback with Dust Jacket.
Dust jacket blurb:
"Because she was the way she was -- big, beautiful, and sexy -- there was no way on Earth Shara Drummond could become a professional dancer, in spite of her soaring genius. No way on Earth . . . but the zero-gravity environment of the orbiting Skyfac gave her the chance to create a new dimension in dance. She took that chance, though it meant catering to the whims of a perverse millionaire and being permanently exiled from her home world. And when the aliens appeared, a menacing swarm of lights from the depths of space, it was Shara who saw the only way to communicate with them -- with one last dance that repelled the threat and made her forever one with the void.
"Shara's legacy was a unique school of dance, free of the pull of Earth's gravity, in which her sister Norrey and her embittered lover Charlie explored new frontiers of movement and feeling , , , and unknowingly prepared themselves for an incredible ordeal and an unimaginable destiny.
"Stardance is a major novel of passion and adventure, of biting irony and tenderness, at once briskly entertaining and deeply moving."
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:
Vintage book found at a recent estate sale.
Judy Bolton Series
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Judy Bolton Mystery Series, created by Margaret Sutton, follows a realistic young woman who solves mysteries. Although the series was not quite as popular as Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton has been called a more complex and believable role model for girls. Judy was also unique in that halfway through the series, she married (something series book heroines rarely, if ever, did). The 38-volume series is the longest-lasting juvenile mystery series written by an individual author.
In September 2012, the 39th volume, The Strange Likeness, was published by Applewood books, which has re-printed titles in the series since 1991. In 1968, Sutton had created the title and the beginnings of a plot outline of a mystery located in Panama; however co-authors Kate Duvall and Beverly Hatfield never saw the original outline and wrote the book instead from their original ideas, with the Sutton family's permission.
Characters
The mainstays of the series were Judy Bolton, auburn-haired girl detective; her brother, news reporter Horace Bolton; her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Bolton; and her loyal black cat, Blackberry. For most of the early volumes she was torn between suitors: the wealthy Arthur Farringdon-Pett, and the upstanding lawyer Peter Dobbs, before finally choosing Peter in volume 10. Her best friend was Peter's sister, Grace Dobbs, also known as Honey; her rival for Arthur's affections was Lorraine Lee. Judy was friends with Arthur's sister, Lois Farringdon-Pett, and one of her high-school archenemies was snobbish Kay Vincent. Judy also befriended a mill worker, Irene Lang, who later became Irene Meredith.[citation needed]
Critical assessment
Judy Bolton has been called a better feminist role model than Nancy Drew because "Nancy Drew is more likely to uphold the ideological status quo, while Judy Bolton is more likely to restore moral rather than legal order, because her mysteries tend to emphasize human relationships over material possessions."
Unlike Drew, Bolton often enlists the aid of family members and friends in solving mysteries; she "works in a collaborative way that subverts dominant values."
Judy is emotional and self-doubting; for this reason she has been called a "more believable" female role model.
As a part of her collaborative approach, Judy is often defined in relation to men: as Dr. Bolton's daughter or later, as Peter Dobbs' wife.
Publication history
There were 38 titles in the original Judy Bolton series, all copyrighted between 1932 and 1967. The final 12, particularly the last one, had limited printings and as a result are hard to find. Collectors often find themselves paying upwards of $200 for a volume in good condition. The series ended before the 39th book, The Strange Likeness, could be published.[5] According to author Margaret Sutton, the series was killed due not to poor sales, but to pressure from the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
The Stratemeyer Syndicate wished to lessen competition for the Nancy Drew series.[6] Pelagie Doane illustrated many of the early Judy Bolton books.
During, and after, the course of the series, a number of translations were published internationally. Among these were Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Spanish editions.
In 1997, three decades after Grosset & Dunlap issued the last Judy Bolton title, author Linda Joy Singleton completed a book that series creator Margaret Sutton had begun writing several years before.[9] Once the first draft was finished, Singleton submitted it to Sutton for revisions, and the book that emerged from their collaboration carries the name of both co-authors. Chronologically, The Talking Snowman takes place during the Christmas season between the events described in volume 3 and volume 4, and thus is known to collectors as "volume 3.5".
Another title, The Whispering Belltower, was written by Kate Emburg with the encouragement of Margaret Sutton.[9]
In 2012, with the permission of Margaret Sutton's family, co-authors Kate Duvall and Beverly Hatfield wrote The Strange Likeness based on Sutton's original title.
The book, #39 in the Judy Bolton Mystery Series, was edited by Sutton's youngest daughter, Lindsay Sutton Stroh, and illustrated by another daughter, Marjorie Sutton Eckstein. The Mystery on Judy Lane, the 40th entry in the series also written by Hatfield followed in 2018.
Titles
1. The Vanishing Shadow (1932)
2. The Haunted Attic (1932)
3. The Invisible Chimes (1932)
4. Seven Strange Clues (1932)
5. The Ghost Parade (1933)
6. The Yellow Phantom (1933)
7. The Mystic Ball (1934)
8. The Voice in the Suitcase (1935)
9. The Mysterious Half Cat (1936)
10. The Riddle of the Double Ring (1937)
11. The Unfinished House (1938)
12. The Midnight Visitor (1939)
13. The Name on the Bracelet (1940)
14. The Clue in the Patchwork Quilt (1941)
15. The Mark on the Mirror (1942)
16. The Secret of the Barred Window (1943)
17. The Rainbow Riddle (1946)
18. The Living Portrait (1947)
19. The Secret of the Musical Tree (1948)
20. The Warning on the Window (1949)
21. The Clue of the Stone Lantern (1950)
22. The Spirit of Fog Island (1951)
23. The Black Cat's Clue (1952)
24. The Forbidden Chest (1953)
25. The Haunted Road (1954)
26. The Clue in the Ruined Castle (1955)
27. The Trail of the Green Doll (1956)
28. The Haunted Fountain (1957)
29. The Clue of the Broken Wing (1958)
30. The Phantom Friend (1959)
31. The Discovery at the Dragon's Mouth (1960)
32. The Whispered Watchword (1961)
33. The Secret Quest (1962)
34. The Puzzle in the Pond (1963)
35. The Hidden Clue (1964)
36. The Pledge of the Twin Knights (1965)
37. The Search for the Glowing Hand (1966)
38. The Secret at the Sand Castle (1967)
39. The Strange Likeness (2012)
40. The Mystery on Judy Lane (2018)
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
“ICE swings past the Moon
NASA's ISEE-3 spacecraft streaks just 116 km above the lunar surface December 22, 1983, as it is catapulted by the Moon's gravity toward a September 11, 1985, encounter with Comet Giacobini-Zinner.”
Above at/from:
www.planetary.org/articles/0328-returning-explorers
Credit: The Planetary Society website
Also:
“An artist’s depiction of ICE during its last lunar flyby on December 22, 1983 that sent it into solar orbit.”
Above at/from:
www.drewexmachina.com/2015/09/11/ice-the-first-comet-flyby/
Credit: Andrew LePage/Drew Ex Machina website
I procured this primarily because I considered it an aesthetically pleasing work, with one of my favorite destinations of exploration prominently featured.
Or so I thought. Psyche!
However, what’s actually going on here, and the spacecraft’s mission(s) turned out to be quite interesting. But, I didn’t feel like copying/pasting/paraphrasing the story. So, if you’re so inclined, read any/all of the links I’ve provided. If you do, I think you’ll agree…heck, even crowdfunding was involved.
Reasons for the appeal of the artwork:
- Attention to detail of the spacecraft.
- Color/Appearance of the lunar surface, and earth, and similarity to the recent Artemis II photos.
- Color/Appearance of the lunar surface, and earth, reminiscent of some of the photos taken during Apollo 15, with that used on the dustjacket of James Irwin’s book, “To Rule The Night” coming to mind. In fact, a little researching revealed that it’s indeed the photo sequence that was used for it, but reversed left-to-right, along with the earth’s crescent being inverted. Artistic license, I guess. Linked-to photos below confirm.
Along those lines…and bear with me another excruciating moment…the crescent earth orientation selected dictates that the lunar surface depicted is in darkness. This got me to thinking, knowing squat about earth/moon celestial mechanics, if this view was even possible. Additional linked-to photos below do show such orientation, so it is.
spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/isee-3-an-old-friend...
Credit: spaceref website
refractor.io/space/crowdfunding-push-to-bring-36-year-old...
Credit: “REFRACTOR” website
Unfortunately, no signature is present. Jerry Elmore maybe? See yet another linked-to photo below for why it might be…maybe.
Finally, since I know you're wondering; the area depicted is between the craters Curie (foreground, out of frame) & Hecataeus (over the horizon), looking generally toward the west.
Thanks to the wonderful Lunar and Planetary Institute website, particularly:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/apolloindex/apollo1...
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here is what Bok's original illustration looks like:
www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/15933477262/in/album-7...
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.
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.
No printing date; Moord achterstevoren [The Chinese Orange Mystery] by Ellery Queen. Cover art by Auke A. Tadema
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
"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).
“The Moon and the Planets” contains 40 double-page and fold-out plates featuring the work by space artist Ludek Pesek. It was his first publication. Ludek Pesek (1919-1999) was born in Kladno in what is now the Czech Republic. He produced his first artwork around the age of 19 and, later, attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His art first reached US readers through the National Geographic Magazine which commissioned him to do a series of works about Mars. Previous to the Mars article he had painted 15 scenes for an article called “Journey to the Planets” in August 1970. He produced several 360-degree panoramas for projection in the domes of the planetariums at Stuttgart, Winnipeg and Lucerne, and has exhibited in Washington, DC, Boston, Nashville, Stuttgart, Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, and other venues. The asteroid 6584 Ludek Pesek is named for him and his work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
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
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.
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 ULTIMATE FANTASY ADVENTURE STRIP
“The planet Mongo is a strange world, inhabited by fantastic races and weird creatures. Though its technology is far advanced, most of the planet lives in primitive savagery under the oppression of Emperor Ming the Merciless. The cruel dictator has sworn to capture and kill the three Earthling castaways who threaten his power on Mongo. Flash Gordon, an American sportsman, lovely Dale Arden, and near-mad genius, Dr. Hans Zarkov, find themselves in a never-ending series of heart-stopping adventures as they are pursued across the wilds of Mongo.
“Artist Alex Raymond has created what many consider the apex of fantasy strips. It is an original classic from the Golden Age of Comics. Nostalgia Press and King Features are proud to present this color album of Flash Gordon comic strips from the 1930’s and 40’s.” [Quoted from the blurb on the dust jacket]
"The Big Sleep" centers around the Sternwoods: an old, paralyzed ex-soldier, who made a fortune in oil; his two beautiful daughters -- one a gambler, the other a degenerate; and a strangely missing son-in-law. Marlowe, the detective -- shrewd, strong, and incorruptible, the healthy force amid the shadows and the whispers -- is called in to break a blackmail case and ends up to his neck in a series of mysterious murders.
The 1946 movie version of "The Big Sleep" from Warner Brothers stars Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge.