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“Pirates of Venus” is the first book in the Venus series and was first published in six installments in Argosy magazine in 1932 and in book form two years later. The novel contains elements of political satire aimed at communism and there are fantastic creatures, amazing landscapes, picturesque kingdoms with strange customs, a resourceful hero with telepathic abilities, and, of course, a beautiful and strong-willed princess. Carson Napier, the hero of the story, is on a journey to Mars, misses the red planet by a wide margin and crashes on Venus, a water world called Amtor by its humanlike inhabitants. And it’s there that many new adventures begin. “Pirates of Venus” is generally considered one of Edgar Rice Burroughs best books from the 1930s. [Source: Wikipedia]
“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]
In this, Asimov's second voyage into the human body, the destination is deep inside the human brain in a desperate search for the origins of thought itself. As in the first voyage, a team of scientists is miniaturized to molecular size and travel in a specially designed submarine. They embark on a dangerous journey to a dying brain in an attempt to tap the secrets held there.
“Marooned on Mars” stands among the earliest titles in the Winston “Adventures in Science Fiction” series, a line that helped define mid century juvenile SF. Lester del Rey’s tale of a stowaway teen caught in the first human mission to Mars pairs Cold War optimism with hands on problem solving, reflecting the era’s belief that scientific curiosity could shape the future.
Paul Orban’s dustjacket design amplifies that promise: a sleek rocket poised against a rugged Martian horizon, astronauts dwarfed by the scale of discovery. Together, text and image capture the moment when spaceflight shifted from pulp fantasy to plausible destiny, inviting young readers to imagine themselves on the frontier.
Lester del Rey (1915–1993) was one of the most versatile and influential figures of American science fiction—an author, editor, critic, and later co founder of Del Rey Books. His fiction often blended scientific plausibility with emotional immediacy, making him a natural fit for the emerging market of juvenile SF in the early 1950s. Young readers were growing up alongside the space race, and Del Rey believed deeply in science fiction as a tool for inspiring them toward scientific careers. “Marooned on Mars” reflects that mission: earnest, technically minded, and optimistic about humanity’s future in space.
Winston books were notable for their striking dust jackets, often by artists like Alex Schomburg and Paul Orban, whose dramatic, forward looking imagery helped define the visual vocabulary of juvenile SF. Winston titles emphasized scientific accuracy, moral clarity, and the excitement of exploration, offering a bridge between the pulp tradition and the coming age of NASA. Today, the series is prized by collectors for its artwork, its cultural significance, and its role in shaping a generation’s imagination about spaceflight.
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Six men and two women are trapped in a tropic clearing – and one of them is a murderer. Confronted with the intense heat and boredom of the tropics, having to wait for the arrival of the coasting launch which passes by once a month, this assorted group become irritable and overwrought. Jealousies and enmities become more and more marked until one night one of the members of the party is found strangely and horribly strangled by the head of an Indian doll which has been thrust far down his throat.
Back cover detail, cropped and cleaned up, from the dust jacket of a hard cover copy of the "Green Fairy Book," edited by Andrew Lang.
This book from Arkham House collects four bizarre novels by British author William Hope Hodgson, their first printing in the USA. They are “The Boats of the Glen Carrig” (1907), “The House on the Borderland” (1908), “The Ghost Pirates” (1909), and “The Night Land” (1912). Primarily the romanticist, Hodgson could not overcome a strong predilection for the weird. A thread of romance creeps into even “The House on the Borderland,” perhaps his best work and one of the most unforgettable weird-scientific novels ever written. “The Night Land” which was subtitled “a love tale” is a weird fantasy story of the world millions of years in the future.
William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) was the son of an Essex clergyman who left home early in life to spend eight years at sea, a circumstance that profoundly influenced his writing career, for his best weird tales were written about the sea. When World War I broke out, Hodgson was granted a commission in the 171st Brigade at Royal Field Artillery. He fought at Ypres and, in the following year, he distinguished himself for bravery by the part he played to help stem the onslaught of a superior German force. Not long after, while on duty in the dangerous post of observation officer of his Brigade, he was killed by a shell.
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.
1954; The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. Dust Jacket by Leo Manso. Adrian is the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
1950; Zeerovers eiland [Treasure Island] by R.L. Stevenson. Dutch edition with dust Jacket by Piet Marée.
Release a Jinn from a bottle – according to legend – and he becomes your slave. But Zongri was an unusual Jinn – evil, malicious, and thoroughly angry at having been kept imprisoned for thousands of years. Instead of thanking young Jan Palmer for freeing him, he cursed Jan – with the curse of “eternal wakefulness.”
Jan had enough trouble in his own world. Meek and bookish, he stood accused of murder, and no one would believe him innocent. But his trouble more than doubled as the curse sent him into another world every time he fell asleep. In this other existence, he had a separate identity – that of Tiger, swashbuckling adventurer and warrior against the ruling demons. The odds were against him everywhere – and he could die in either world at any moment!
After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, L. Ron Hubbard developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first expounded in book form in May 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scientology.
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.
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)
Robert E. Howard’s science fiction novel “Almuric” was first published in book form by Ace Books in 1964.
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It was originally a three-part serial that began with the May 1939 issue of Weird Tales.
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The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn. He transports through space to a world known as Almuric to hide from the law after a deadly altercation with a corrupt politician. While there he battles wild beasts and ape-like humanoids and becomes known as the Iron Hand due to his physical strength and fighting skills.
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“A Story of Desperate Men and a Rare Kind of Patriotism . . .
PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE
Originally Published as “Men Without Country” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
“Passage to Marseille” is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was based on the 1942 novel “Men Without Country” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of “Mutiny on the Bounty.” “Passage to Marseille” is one of the few films to use a flashback, within a flashback, within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an airbase in England during World War II. Free French Captain Freycinet tells a journalist the story of the French pilots stationed there. The second flashback is at the French prison colony at Cayenne in French Guiana while the third flashback sets the scene where the lead character, Jean Matrac, a newspaper publisher, is framed for a murder to silence him. [Source: Wikipedia]
Superb action and adventure as patriots resist fascism from Devil's Island and on shipboard against Vichy agents and Nazi dive bombers. Along with Bogart, the film stars Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Claude Raines.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Audubon Society Field Guide to MUSHROOMS is published by Knopf under Chanticleer Press imprint way back in 1981. Color plates take up a bit less than half the book, on thicker calendared paper, with the text printed on almost Bible quality paper.....total numbered pages are 926. Gary H. Lincoff author and Carol Nehring credited with the Visual Key.
Durably bound and likely to fit inside most backpacks or even a camera bag.. My copy arrived today. At some point you will remove the dustjacket. Seen here, with a nice photo on the paper jacket, it is shorter than the bound volume. Note the pig skin textured football-color? Well, that is the actual book cover sticking out top and bottom. Not leather, but it looks stout for field work.
1952; The fast Buck by James Hadley Chase. Cover art by David Arnold Taylor. Allways liked the lettering on these dust jackets and later on the paperbacks.
Jacket art by Robert McGinnis. MacMillan Australia first edition hardcover (1983).
The autobiography of Alan Yates, alias Carter Brown. Features numerous full-colour photographs of classic Carter Brown covers.
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans - front jacket
Stated FIRST Edition / FIRST Printing (full number-line) and Boldly SIGNED and INSCRIBED by AUTHOR Justin Evans on the title page. (Ho-oH ! I got lucky there.)
The Magnificent Dust-Jacket is in top conservation shape.
The Jacket design is by Erin Schell and the Jacket Illustration by the painter JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA (1852-1913) was chosen by the author.
Published by Shaye Areheart Books in May of 2007.
Shaye Areheart Books is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, itself now a division of Random House, Inc., New York . ISBN: 0307351289
Printed in the United States of America - Book Design by Lynne Amft
I like this Artsy style book design: it is a nice production.
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Frank Herbert's celebrated science fiction novel "Dune" was first published as a three-part serial "Dune World" in the December, 1963 - February, 1964 issues of Analog (formerly Astounding Science Fiction).
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The Chilton Company, which was better known for automotive manuals, put out the novel in book form in 1965. "Dune" was the basis for a less-than-stellar film directed by David Lynch in 1984, an Emmy-winning TV miniseries written and directed by John Harrison in 2000 and a popular 3-D video game in 2001.
“Fourth place in the great motor classic at Indianapolis is won by ‘Fer-de-Lance,’ a special. Who is the builder of the marvel? The builder, a man of humble origin, suddenly finds that he is famous and the success of his car is assured.
“Money, power and position are his, but – ‘What profiteth a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’
“So begins this tense drama of modern American industry. Interest is added to the story when it is remembered that it might easily be the life story of any one of several of our great present-day business men.” [From the blurb on the dustjacket]
[Note: This is an early novel about the motor industry, focusing on the Fer-de-Lance sports car and automobile manufacturing. There has never been a real-world Fer-de-Lance sports car, but it is now the name of a car model in the Saints Row video game franchise.]
The front cover of a wonderful book - the 1939 "Old Fashioned Flowers" by Sacheverell Sitwell that is so beautifully illustrated by John Farleigh - who produced this title page. The book was published by Country Life and printed at the lovely Curwen Press in Plaistow, east London.
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."
1954; Brandon in New York by Vernon Warren. Cover art by Jas. E. McConnell. Hardcover with dustjacket.
ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN
“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”
“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]
(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)
The fourth in the series of Contact Books that had begun in 1946 launched by George Weidenfeld and that were, through Contact Publications Ltd. the precursor to the publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Their origins as 'books' was somewhat down to a legal restriction on the launch of new magazine titles in post-war Britain, due to paper shortages. Weidenfeld was advised that by calling the publications 'books', even through they came out on a regular basis of around four per year, they could circumnavigate the magazine ban.
The Books are based on themes around current affairs and the arts and are considered to include some of the most interesting articles on the topics at the time; the editorial associates, contributors and illustrators read like a role call of British thinkers, commentators and political writers. This, issue four, is called "The Changing Nation" and includes articles on suburbia by Barbara Jones, the Metropolis in Transition by Hugh Casson, Marriage and divorce in post-war Britain by Mass-Observation and many more. Artists featured include Leonard Rosoman and John Farleigh who contributed the dust jacket, not often found on surviving copies.
The books also contain much in the way of contemporary advertising.
From "An Appreciation" by E.C. Comic fan Larry Stark:
"E.C. comics," we called them back then.
"Entertaining Comics -- A New Trend in Comic Books," was the way they described themselves. And they were right. The great Horror Comics of the Fifties, as we've come to remember them -- were a brand-new concept in both comic art and story-telling. Seriously conceived and executed, wildly and freely creative, it was a sign of their excellence that they never really died a natural death. They were killed -- legally tried and ultimately executed like criminals -- by a frightened generation of witch hunters. Nothing remains of them now but the tattered copies yellowing in the closets of collectors like myself -- and a very strong memory. For brief as the life of E.C. was, it flashed with such brilliance as to make forgetting impossible. . . "
“Tarzan and the Lost Empire,” the twelfth in the series of Tarzan books, was first published as a serial in Blue Book Magazine from October 1928 through February 1929. The story involves a lost remnant of the Roman Empire that Tarzan and a young German find hidden in the mountains of Africa. The book is notable for the introduction of Nkima, Tarzan’s monkey companion who appears in a number of later Tarzan stories. It also reintroduces Muviro, first seen in “Tarzan and the Golden Lion,” as sub-chief of Tarzan’s Waziri warriors.
Howard Spring's autobographical story of his Cardiff childhood published in 1956 and embellished with a dust jacket illustrated by Lynton Lamb.
Howard Thurston (1869 -1936) was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio who ran away to join the circus in childhood. He eventually became the most famous magician of his time. Thurston's traveling magic show was the biggest one of all; it was so large that it needed eight train cars to transport his road show.
He is still famous for his work with playing cards, billing himself as the King of Cards. According to legend, a Mexican magician appeared at a magic shop owned by Otto Maurer in New York City. The enigmatic magician demonstrated how he could make cards disappear, one by one, at his fingertips. Maurer showed Thurston the move, which he would later feature in his act.
He added the "Rising Cards" trick from Professor Hoffman’s "Modern Magic," the book from which Thurston had learned the rudiments of magic. For this trick, he would walk into the audience and ask several people to choose cards from a deck of cards. The deck was shuffled and placed into a clear glass. Thurston would then call for the chosen cards. One by one the cards would rise up to the top of the deck. When audiences wanted the cards to rise higher, he developed a way of causing the cards to rise directly out of the pack.
Thurston continued to present the traveling magic show following the retirement of his partner, Harry Kellar. He kept up the grind for about thirty years until, on March 30, 1936, he suffered a stroke from a cerebral hemorrhage. He died on April 13 at his Oceanside apartment in Miami Beach, Florida. [Source: Wikipedia]
From the dust jacket:
When two Englishmen on vacation to the Canary Islands unearthed a bundle of age-old sheets, they were surprised to learn that they were the autobiography of one Deucalian, the warrior-priest of Atlantis. Deucalian was the governor of the Province of Yucatan, and on his recall to Atlantis learned that the throne had been seized by the beautiful but tyrannical and unscrupulous Phorenice. A revolt had flared up and the capital city was besieged by the rebels. Even before his arrival at Altantis his fleet was attacked to prevent his landing. Phorenice had chosen him to be her consort, but he met and fell in love with Nais, daughter of the chief priest, Zaemon. And this sets in motion a chain of events that rocks the nation and eventually results in the destruction of the Continent of Atlantis through the occult magic of Zaemon.
Kepes, G. (ed.) The New Landscape in Art and Science. Chicago: Paul Theobald and Co., 1956.
Essays by: Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, R.W. Gerard, S. Giedion, Walter Gropius, S.I. Hayakawa, Jean Helion, Fernand Leger, Kathleen Lonsdale, Charles Morris, Richard J. Neutra, C.F.A. Pantin, Bruno Rossi, Paul Weidlinger, Heinz Werner, Norbert Wiener, Richard Wilbur
This is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s best novels. It has an irresistible theme – mankind’s first encounter with a visitant from the unimaginably remote depths of space and time.
A new celestial body appears in the outer reaches of our solar system in 2130. Believed at first to be an asteroid and named Rama by earthlings, it proves not to be a natural object at all. It’s a vast cylinder about 31 miles long and over 12 miles across, with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. It is moving steadily closer to the Sun. The five-thousand-ton spaceship Endeavour lands on Rama, and when Commander Bill Norton and his crew make their way into its hollow interior they find a whole self-contained world – a world that has been cruising through space for at least 200,000 years and perhaps for more than a million.
Norton and his crew have, at most, three weeks to explore Rama, which seems to be a dead world, though not without its perils. Then, in its own astonishing way, it proves to be very much alive and the perils intensify. Yet in the end homo sapiens pose the greatest menace.
If Morgan Freeman has his way, Rama will someday make its way onto the big screen:
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This edition of Poe’s Tales features 12 full page color plates and 17 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham.